Rosianne Cutajar Accuses Lawyer Edward Debono Of Pigging Out Over His Own Clients
Rosianne Cutajar has come out swinging against the PN’s lawyer Edward Debono, accusing him of “pigging out” over his own clients, a phrase she herself had infamously used when referring to her own previous ITS consultancy job.
Cutajar got into a spat with Debono on the Facebook page of Repubblika president Robert Aquilina, after Debono called her out for dropping her libel case against Mark Camilleri.
“She dropped the case because if she had taken the witness stand and given false testimony against Mark, it would have amounted to perjury,” Debono commented. “That isn’t only a serious crime but one that carries an imprisonment term, which means the wouldn’t be able to stay on as an MP. Despite this, Labour wants to re-embrace her. Why?”
Cutajar promptly responded that Debono should be “ashamed to open his mouth”.
“You were censored by the Chief Justice, who said you pigged out over your own clients, who you sued because you excepted them to pay you a brokerage fee (senserija). By any chance, were you reported to the Commission for the Administration of Justice for breaching ethics?” she said.
Cutajar was referring to a 2017 court ruling by Chief Justice Mark Chetcuti after Debono sued his former clients Jean Pierre and Etienne Saliba.
The Salibas had wanted to purchase a hotel and Debono had put them in touch with the owner of the Sliema Marina Hotel, who was also his client.
Although they paid him for legal services in drafting the original purchase documents, Debono insisted he was also due a €70,000 brokerage fee. When the Salibas refused to pay him, Debono sued them, and the Chief Justice ruled in favour of the defendants.
In his ruling, Chief Justice Chetcuti said that if Debono had expected a brokerage fee, he should have made it unequivocally clear from the start.
“You win some cases, you lose some, but this only shows that the Chief Justice and the judiciary aren’t in our pockets, as you lot have alleged,” Debono responded to Cutajar.
“In the Vitals cases that I defended, the same Chief Justice and two other judges agreed with me that your friends in the upper echelons of government didn’t only pig out but acted fraudulently in collusion with Vitals,” he said.
“You told Yorgen in your chats that you wanted to pig out like them, and you sued Mark Camilleri because he told the truth. When he published the chats, your libel case was proven to be built on a lie, which is why you dropped it.”
“I didn’t drop my case and kept going till the end because I wasn’t scared I would commit perjury as you were. Neither did I lie to the Council of Europe to defend a murder suspect, like you did, without declaring your conflict of interest you had through your relationship with him.”
Cutajar tried to bring the discussion back to Debono’s own case, asking him whether he agrees that the Chief Justice told him he was trying pig out and whether he was reported to the CAJ and found guilty.
However, Debono retorted that it isn’t her business and kept stressing that he didn’t drop the case.
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