Seminar - the rights of arrested and imprisoned persons

Abstract

The Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Malta, Professor Edwin Busuttil, who presided over this seminar held on the 16th April 1983, introduced the following members of the panel: Dr. Victor Borg Costanzi, Attorney General of the Republic, Dr. Guido De Marco, a leading defence counsel, Miss Moira Ferry, a voluntary social worker and Mr. Ronald C. Theuma, Director of Prisons. After a brief analysis in which he divided the period of detention into three stages, the first being the actual arrest, the second the investigation and trial and the third, the prison sentence, Professor Busuttil invited Dr. Borg Costanzi to further elaborate on the rights and guarantees in question.