€ 5 million investment in a new building for our courts

The Minister for Justice, Equality, and Governance Edward Zammit Lewis announced a project of almost € 5 million with the aim of extending the building of the Courts of Malta in Narrow Street, Valletta Valletta.

At a news conference, Minister Zammit Lewis said that within two years, a dilapidated building adjacent to the existing Court in Narrow Street in Valletta, will be being renovated and restructured, with the aim of erecting four chambers and 25 new offices.

Minister Zammit Lewis stressed that this is not a government that only makes constitutional and institutional reforms, as it has done in a relentless and unprecedented work over the last decade, but a government that makes concrete projects with strong investment in justice sector, even in a time of pandemic challenge. Explain how over the last ten months the work has not stopped, as soon as the Attorney General’s Office was inaugurated, work began on the Office of the Commissioner of Law, an unprecedented reform was made in the Asset Recovery, and the restoration and new building for the State Attorney’s Office that will be inaugurated in the coming weeks.