A few lawyers, including former ECHR judge Giovanni Bonello, while addressing a press conference on the spring hunting referendum, told all those who have some form of a hobby or sport: “Your hobbies are safe”.

So had Eddie Fenech Adami, then prime minister, and Simon Busuttil, then head of MIC, written to all hunters and trappers during the EU membership referendum campaign.

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