Outgoing Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has asked the Law Commissioner, Judge Emeritus Antonio Mizzi, to analyse today’s constitutional judgement on the Egrant inquiry and propose ways how a redacted version of the report can be published.

Muscat said he is in favour of the publication of the report in its entirety but said that, on the Attorney General’s advice, some parts may have to be redacted so as not to prejudice ongoing police investigations and to avoid revealing private details of people who are not in public life and who have no relation to the case.

The Constitutional Court, presided over by Chief Justice Joseph Azzopardi, today ruled that Attorney General Peter Grech breached Opposition leader Adrian Delia’s rights when he gave a full copy of the report to Muscat but not to him.

While the Court disagreed that the Attorney General was obliged to publish the report, it didn’t impose any conditions on what Delia can do with it. The Opposition leader has repeatedly pledged to publish the report should he win the case.

Delia promptly visited Grech’s office to acquire a copy but Grech said he has two days to comply with the court ruling, prompting the Opposition leader to demand the Attorney General’s immediate resignation.

The inquiry, conducted by magistrate (now judge) Aaron Bugeja, ruled that there was no evidence to back up Daphne Caruana Galizia’s allegation that Egrant belonged to his wife and that it had received large sums of money from the ruling family of Azerbaijan through a bank account at Pilatus Bank.