Attorney General Peter Grech has dismissed calls for his resignation by Opposition Leader Adrian Delia, saying that losing a court case does not make his position untenable.

As an Attorney General, he said, he was involved in a number of constitutional cases and losing an appeal does not compromise his position.

Speaking to journalists, Grech explained that the case for the access of the Egrant inquiry report had become a human rights case. “Personally I do not agree with the decision but of course I accept it", he said. "Within a few hours I had already handed over a copy of the Egrant report to the leader of the Opposition.”

On Monday, Delia was given a full copy of the Egrant report after he won a constitutional case.  Delia said later that the Attorney General had breached "the very Constitution which he is meant to protect", and called for his immediate resignation.

When asked whether there was a reluctance of the AG’s office to act on crimes involving people at the highest positions of government, Grech said that under the rules of the system, the prosecutor does not investigate.

“The prosecutor prosecutes, so the investigation is done by the police. It is up to the police to decide when the case is mature enough to take the case to court so it is not a matter of the Attorney General’s Office as it is currently set up.” He said that when the police request advice, the AG's office is always ready to assist them and provide advice even about investigations. “I want to make it clear that AG as constituted at present does not investigate, it prosecutes,” said Grech.

“As we know financial investigations and investigations involving other jurisdictions do take time. As far as I know there are magisterial inquiries about all cases reported in the media somehow or other also discovered by police themselves.”

He said that for the past two years the AG office have been criticised both locally and internationally with implications that they are doing nothing and that investigations are not being carried forward.

“I think the breakthroughs in investigations recently show that was not the case. The fact that you cannot make information available about on-going investigations does not mean that investigations are not carried out.”