Judges, Judging and Humour

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1 The ritualistic practices may include celebration – as with the feast of Saint Ives, patron saint of lawyers, celebrated in style in Malta. From 1961, the celebratory feast included a humorous amateur dramatic performance of a dialogue or monologue between a lawyer and the saint, written by Judge Victor Caruana Colombo (collected in Borg 2018, 173-272).

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Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone

Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone completed her PhD on comedy and punk at the University of Kent (Canterbury). Prior to this, she obtained a BA in Legal and Humanistic Studies, and a postgraduate diploma of Notary Public, from the University of Malta. She is currently a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta, and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent. She published a monograph, The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy, with Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in Comedy series), and co-edited the volume Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance  (Rowman and Littlefield International's Experiments/On the Political series), in 2018. She is currently working on co-editing a volume on comedy and digital games.