The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
Gibraltar is set to launch a judicial review on the UK government’s Point of Consumption tax regulatory model, which will be passed over the next couple of weeks.
A mentally ill man who is currently in the King George V Hospital was deemed to be unfit to plea or stand for trial at a Supreme Court case review this morning. The local man, who is in his forties, was arrested in 2012 on suspicion of arson. He spent several months in prison on remand before being transferred to the hospital.