Fifteen licensed mooring men yesterday field a judicial protest claiming their human rights would be breached if a legal notice came into force that would allow others to do the job they do now.

The men claimed the legal notice would empower shipping terminal operators to authorise employees to do the same work as they do without having the necessary licence or forming part of the mooring men corps.

The legal notice, they argued, would revoke all previous laws and as a result it would illegally and abusively deprive them of work.

They called on the government not to publish the legal notice to safeguard their human rights.

The protest, filed against the Prime Minister, the Minister of Transport and Transport Malta, was signed by lawyers Michael Tanti-Dougall and Mark Simiana.

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