Lawyers representing Transport Malta argued in court today that licensed parking attendants had no right to remain stationed in any particular car park.
The lawyers were replying to a request for the issue of a warrant of prohibitory injunction requested by car park attendant Paul Grech, 49, who works in Marsamxetto Road, Valletta. He is requesting the court to stop TM from building a horse shelter in his parking lot while transferring him elsewhere.
But the authority's lawyer Ivan Gatt, told a court today that Transport Malta has the right to transfer parking attendants wherever it feels they are most needed for the benefit of the locality.
Last week the court provisionally upheld the request and put off the case to yesterday to hear both parties' arguments before reaching a final decision.
Mr Grech, a father of three, argued he had been been working in Marsamxetto Road, opposite the House of Catalunia, for the past 18 years. Construction workers turned up one morning to build a shelter for horse drawn cabs.
Mr Grech claimed he was threatened by Transport Malta staff and told not to cause any obstacles for them.
He said that the shelter would remove a number of...
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