Malta warned of corruption crisis after ‘utter disbelief’ over Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict

Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at risk Malta is vulnerable to “repeated instances of high-level corruption” unless it strengthens the rule of law and protections for journalists, the Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti said at the opening of an inquiry into judicial failures following the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Chakrabarti, a member of the House of Lords and former director of the human rights group…