A law which limits access to the Drugs Court for certain cases was on Thursday found to breach the fundamental rights of a lawyer who landed a five-year jail term for fraud he committed to sustain his acute drug addiction. The landmark judgment was delivered in constitutional proceedings filed by Reuben Micallef, whose life took a downward turn when he began to dabble in drugs following a broken relationship. The applicant had recounted the story of his life in court, explaining how he got his first taste of drugs when he caught up with former University friends after his relationship failure. From that moment on, his life got progressively worse as his addiction took over his life. When at his most vulnerable, he was exploited by two persons into committing the fraud to get money to buy his daily supply of drugs. “Drugs were my sole purpose in life and without them I felt unwell,” Micallef testified. He was subsequently charged and convicted for having defrauded various persons in 2007 and condemned to a five-year jail term. He filed an appeal. With proceedings still pending at appeal stage, Micallef’s lawyers requested that court to convert itself into a Drugs Court in terms...