Penalties for bribery and trading in influence too weak The feeling that the former Chief Justice deserved a heavier penalty is nothing less than national in general terms (Council of Europe on bribery penalties, MaltaToday, 16 January). But people do not seem to realise that, in the light of the relative high office in society and in view of the great responsibilities the office carries, the mere commencements of procedures condemns the offender for life, to say the least. In a way, corporal punishment is least important to the offender, because time heals it: but not the moral effects of the incident.
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