No police report filed to investigate Jason Azzopardi, Manuel Delia

Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers have not filed a formal report with the police to investigate parte civile lawyer Jason Azzopardi and blogger Manuel Delia over what appeared to be a “concerted effort to influence” a judge’s decision on bail.  Lawyers for the businessman, who is currently awaiting trial for complicity in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, had flagged what they claimed to be a “systematic attack” against Mr Justice Giovanni Grixti, who presided over a fresh bail application by Fenech.  That application, filed on August 16, was followed by submissions in open court. But pending a decision by the judge in chambers, it was revealed on social media that Grixti, back in 2008, had purchased a boat from the accused’s father, the late George Fenech.  The revelation was followed by a sharp attack by Azzopardi who, not only wrote to the Chief Justice asking him to intervene, but also posted public comments insinuating that Mr Justice Grixti was “prejudiced, partial and dishonest”. Such publications by Azzopardi and Delia breached Fenech’s fundamental right to a fair hearing by “undermining trust in the judicial process, specifically in the independence and impartiality of...