Justice Minister Owen Bonnici has defended his judicial reform Bill, which has come under fire, saying it was constitutionally sound but Opposition spokesman Jason Azzopardi warned that there will be no consensus unless it is changed from scratch. Dr Bonnici reacted quickly to counter the scathing attack on his Bill by a constitutional expert and a former European Court of Human Rights judge, who described the proposal as "fake", "autocratic" and "unconstitutional". "The government's proposal is constitutionally sound and strengthens the independence of the judiciary. "This being said, however, the government is always open to ideas and suggestions on how to improve the legislative proposal," he said in a Talking Point article carried on today's back page. He was reacting to a similar opinion piece penned by the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the university, Kevin Aquilina, and comments sought by this newspaper from the very person who headed the Justice Reform Commission, Giovanni Bonello. Following the Bonello Commission's recommendations made in 2013, Dr Bonnici presented a Bill last week reforming mechanisms used to appoint and discipline judges and magistrates. The Bonello...
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