Police, Justice and Defence

EU (Non-Maltese) Legal Professionals wishing to practice their legal profession in Malta will be required to register with the local competent authority. Such registration will entitle them to practise under their home country professional title.

This form is to be submitted by persons requesting to be accredited as mediators and who are duly qualified.

With this application, one may request the Court to be exempt from serving as a juror. According to Article 607(1) of the Criminal Code this application must be filed within four days after writ of service. If the request to be exempt is for example based on a medical condition, the original copy is necessary. A scanned copy is not accepted by the Court, thus electronic submissions are not sufficient. In the case where according to Article 604 of the Criminal Code, one is included in the list exempted from serving as juror, a letter addressed to the Registrar is enough to be deemed as an application.

Arbitration Proceedings commence with the filing of a Notice of Arbitration by the person initiating the proceedings (Claimant) together with the payment of the relevant filing fee.

This service is used by the citizen who requires to pay for a Court fine online after having received a Notice for Payment from the Courts of Malta and Gozo.

This form is used by the party who brought a claim before the Small Claims Tribunal to reply to a counterclaim made by the party against whom s/he filed his/her claim.

This form is used to file before the Small Claims Tribunal a money claim of an amount not exceeding €5,000 and thereby initiating procedures before the same Tribunal.

This form is used by a party who is served with a notice of claim filed against him in the Small Claims Tribunal and wants to respond to the claim. This reply has to be submitted within 18 days from the date when such party was served with the notice of claim. If the party so notified wants to make a counterclaim against the party who made the claim, then s/he is to use this same form and fill in the part entitled 'Response with Counterclaim'.