Justice Minister Owen Bonnici yesterday quashed a rumour doing the rounds that Labour Party lawyer Paul Lia is set to be appointed Chief Justice in the near future.
Though incumbent Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri is still four years away from reaching the retirement age of 65, in recent weeks there has been growing speculation that he will be moving on.
Lawyer Andrew Borg Cardona, writing in his weekly column for Times of Malta today (page 14), says the legal world is awash with rumours about who will be the next Chief Justice when the incumbent moves on, “for whatever reason”.
While not naming him, he strongly hints that Dr Lia, Labour’s legal representative, is one of the two names being mentioned: he writes of “a senior lawyer who would be comfortable in one of the Three Villages, and not Attard or Balzan either”.
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