Court finds no negligence in magistrate’s death

With only that report available, the safe point is also the central one: the court rejected a claim of medical negligence linked to the magistrate’s death.

That is a legal finding, and a narrow one. The material at hand does not set out the magistrate’s name, the procedure involved, the evidence heard or the court’s reasoning. It supports a conclusion about negligence, not a fuller account of what happened in the operating theatre or afterward.

Still, court findings in cases like this carry their own weight. They mark the difference between suspicion and a judicial conclusion, and here the conclusion reported by The Malta Independent is that medical negligence was not found.

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