Senior Magistrate Silvio Meli and Magistrate Tonio Ellul have been nominated judges, and lawyers Francesco Depasquale, Josette Demicoli and Neville Camilleri are to be appointed magistrates.

They are all University of Malta graduates.

Dr Meli was appointed magistrate in 1990 and is a visiting lecturer and examiner in the philosophy of rights at the laws faculty of the University of Malta and the University of South Texas, US. He is also a member of the Commission for the Administration of Justice.

Dr Ellul graduated in 1993 and worked for a time in the Attorney General’s office. He was appointed magistrate in 2007.

Dr Depasquale, 40, graduated in 1995 and since 2006 has served as judicial assistant and legal secretary of the Chief Justice. Dr Camilleri, 37, graduated in 1999 and is a member of the Refugees Appeal Board and an arbiter of the Malta Centre for Arbitration.

Dr Demicoli, who graduated in 1997, will be 38 in August. She has worked in the attorney general’s office and has served as a judicial assistant.

The new judges and magistrates are to be sworn in soon.