A judge yesterday turned down a car park attendant’s request to stop Transport Malta from building a horse shelter in Valletta that would severely limit his revenue.
Paul Grech, 49, who operates in Marsamxetto Road, close to the House of Catalunya, managed to secure a temporary warrant of prohibitory injunction last week to stop the horse shelter from being built.
Mr Grech, a father of three, argued in court that Transport Malta could not overnight decide to move him to another area. He pointed out that he had been operating in Marsamxetto Road for the past 18 years.
Transport Malta’s lawyer, Ivan Gatt, submitted that the regulator had every right to transfer Mr Grech to wherever it felt he was most needed for the benefit of the locality. Furthermore, a licence granted to a car park attendant was not rigidly linked to a fixed location and building the horse shelters formed part of the Valletta rehabilitation programme.
Mr Justice Anthony Ellul dismissed Mr Grech’s request to issue a permanent ban on the building of the horse shelter in question.