The Chamber of Advocates has refused to comment on the case of the two lawyers acquitted of bribing a Times of Malta journalist, arguing there is an ongoing internal investigation and it would be premature to comment before that is concluded. In a statement issued after Times of Malta sent a number of questions, the chamber said: "From an ethics perspective, the chamber had referred the matter for investigation by the Committee for Advocates and Legal Procurators back in November 2020, which investigation the chamber understands was suspended pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings, [so] it would be premature for the chamber to comment before that investigation is concluded." On Monday, Yorgen Fenech's lawyers Gianluca Caruana Curran and Charles Mercieca were cleared of attempting to bribe Times of Malta senior journalist Ivan Martin after the magistrate said the Attorney General had not indicated the relevant type of bribery. At the end of a 20-minute meeting in Valletta in November 2020, Caruana Curran had handed over folded €500 notes to Martin, who refused the money. But, when delivering the judgment, Magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras observed that the case as it...