Retired Judge Lino Farrugia Sacco has lost an appeal he had filed against the prime minister, the Attorney General and the Commission for the Administration of Justice.

Judge Farrugia Sacco had appealed a Constitutional Court judgment which held that the judiciary watchdog had not breached his rights when it ruled there was no need for a fresh re-evaluation after a second impeachment motion against him, identical to the first, was presented against him after the general election.

The court had ruled that there was no breach when the Commission for the Administration of Justice ruled that nothing had changed from the first impeachment motion against the judge – presented before the election by then prime minister Lawrence Gonzi – and that it therefore did not need to re-evaluate the matter.
The commission had ruled on both occasions that there was prima facie evidence of misbehaviour by Mr Justice Farrugia Sacco after he defied its calls to resign as president of the Malta Olympic Committee.

The judge retired in August and impeachment proceedings against him therefore could not take place.