Vincent De Gaetano
Vincent Anthony De Gaetano (born August 17, 1952 in Sliema ) is a Maltese lawyer and judge at the European Court of Human Rights .
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De Gaetano studied law at the University of Malta , where he obtained a notary degree in 1974 and a doctorate in law in 1975. After his admission to the Maltese Bar Association in 1976, he studied criminology at the University of Cambridge . He completed this course the following year. From 1979 he worked in the office of the Maltese Attorney General as chief advisor, later as his direct assistant and from 1989 to 1994 as his representative. From 1988 to 1994 De Gaetano was a member of a committee of the Council of Europe on refugee issues, from 1995 to 1997 he was chairman of the anti-corruption group of the Council of Europe. Since 1994 De Gaetano has also lectured on criminal law and criminal procedural law at the University of Malta. Since the same year he served as a judge in the highest courts of Malta. From 2002 to 2010 he was Chief Justice of Malta and President of the Maltese Constitutional Court, the highest civil and criminal appeals court . In June 2010 he was elected Judge at the European Court of Human Rights to succeed Giovanni Bonello as representative of Malta . He took up his term of office, which is expected to last until 2019, on September 20, 2010. Since November 3, 2015, he has also been Vice-President of Section IV of the ECHR. As part of a regrouping of the judges, De Gaetano became President of the III. Section.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Chief Justice Vincent De Gaetano to succeed Judge Giovanni Bonello at European Court of Human Rights on independent.com.mt, accessed March 11, 2018.
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| SURNAME | De Gaetano, Vincent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Gaetano, Vincent Anthony (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Maltese lawyer and judge at the European Court of Human Rights |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sliema |