ITALY’S Silvio Berlusconi faced a day of reckoning yesterday as the Constitutional Court began mulling whether to strip him of immunity from prosecution on pending corruption charges.

Italy’s constitutional court began deliberations today on whether a law giving prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and other top Italian officials immunity from prosecution while in office is legal under the constitution.

A MILAN appeals court acquitted former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in a corruption case yesterday, upholding an earlier acquittal in one of several cases faced by Italy’s richest man.