The Chamber of Advocates has called on the Prime Minister to publicly disassociate himself from aspersions cast on a judge's integrity by one of his communications aides. In a post on his blog, Glenn Bedingfield suggested that judge Lorraine Schembri Orland had yesterday awarded the Nationalist Party two extra parliamentary seats due to partisan leanings. "[She] had contested the election as a PN candidate in 1992. Instead of getting that seat, she gave two to the PN," Mr Bedingfield wrote. Mr Bedingfield is paid a full-time salary from the public purse to serve as the Prime Minister's communications consultant. The Chamber of Advocates said that it was "totally unacceptable" to personally attack a member of the judiciary, rather than criticise the judgement itself. It noted that there were several precedents of judges and magistrates having been previously active in party politics, and that they had all carried out their judicial roles with impartiality and fairness. "Comments like Mr Bedingfield's deserve to be condemned regardless of where they come from. They are even more unacceptable when it is a Prime Minister's spokesman who is making them, since this undermines...
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