The court today upheld a request to urgenty hear a constitutional application filed by Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia seeking a complete copy of the Egrant inquiry report.

The case has now been set for 3 September.

Earlier this month, Delia initiated proceedings after the Attorney General refused to give the Opposition Leader a full copy of the Egrant inquiry.

Delia had requested the case to be heard with urgency and said the whole truth, and not just part of it, had to emerge. The PN leader had insisted that the Opposition needed the full report so that it could fulfil its constitutional function.

The Attorney General had argued that urgency was not necessary.

The court, president by Mr Justice Robert Mangion, said the very fact that the case had been filed by the leader of the Opposition - a constitutional position - meant it should be heard with urgency.

Only the conclusions of the Egrant inquiry have been published so far. The conclusions found no evidence linking the Prime Minister and his wife to a company named Egrant, as alleged by slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. PM Joseph Muscat has pledged to publish the whole inquiry but after parts of it are redacted.