Giannino Caruana Demajo

Giannino Caruana Demajo (born February 1958) is a Maltese judge.

Biography The son of Partit Nazzjonalista politician Tommy Caruana Demajo - a minister at the time of Malta's independence in 1964 - Giannino graduated in law (LL.D.) from the University of Malta in 1982.

He obtained a warrant to practise as advocate in the Superior Courts, exercising the profession in private practice until 1994.

He is Senior Administrative Judge since 2007 and vice-chair of the Judicial Studies Board since 2009.

In 2010 he was deemed the favourite of Justice Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici to succeed to Vincent A. De Gaetano as Chief Justice of Malta, but Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi preferred to him the outsider Silvio Camilleri.

Since 2011 Caruana Demajo sits in the Constitutional Court.