Joanne Vella Cuschieri

Joanne Vella Cuschieri (born in 1976 in Mellieha) is a Maltese judge.[1][2]

Vella Cuschieri graduated in Law in 2001, after which she practiced as a lawyer, including by serving as a legal consultant to Malta's General Workers' Union and the Union of Technical and Clerical within the planning authority since 2005.[3]

She contested the 2013 Maltese general election for Joseph Muscat's Labour, without being elected.[4][5]

In 2014 she was appointed as a Magistrate[4] by Justice Minister Owen Bonnici, whom Daphne Caruana Galizia reported was her "close friend".[6] Vella Cuschieri's promotion was challenged in court by the NGO Repubblika, who claimed the procedure did not follow the recommendations of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission aimed at removing the discretion of the Prime Minister in the appointment of members of Malta's judiciary. [5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Judges. Archived 2019-12-31 at the Wayback Machine The Judiciary - Malta. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Lawyers' call for changes to judiciary appointment process". Malta Today. 3 June 2019.
  3. ^ Times of Malta, 3 Mar 2014
  4. ^ a b Malta Independent, March 2014
  5. ^ a b Manuel Delia, Oct 2019
  6. ^ Caruana Galizia's Running Commentary, Jan 2017


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