Equality and justice in public life have been the backbone of a functioning democracy, and the role of public service law is to transfer specialist knowledge and skills in the legal field to support under-represented groups and services and provide important expertise in the functioning of government.
In addition to the civil code and the constitution, Malta has been rapidly transposing directives in housing law, employment and industrial relations, financial services and taxation, consumer protection, equal opportunities and discrimination and is a member of the European Convention of Human Rights. As such the onus on Maltese Authorities to provide these services requires a presence within public service law to add the checks and balances.
Chetcuti Cauchi’s expertise provides us with the tools to keep on top of developments in the legal sphere, to provide advice to governments and to easily understand information to our clients and stakeholders.
Our lawyers in the Public Service practice group use their knowledge of the functioning of government, rules and regulations and the landscape of national and European law to perform their specialities in public policies and many aspects of public law.
Recent Work
The Maltese Government appointed Chetcuti Cauchi in order to advise about the implementation of a validation system for European Patents in view of the fact that initially the jurisdiction had no legal procedures in place with regards to validation processes. The expert input of our Intellectual Property team was involved in the setting up and structuring of an effective and efficient validation procedures.