The court convened to hear constitutional proceedings filed by the Opposition leader, who is challenging the Attorney General's decision to deny him a full copy of the Egrant inquiry.

Highlights from Monday's session:

• Kurt Farrugia, head of communications at the Office of the Prime Minister, insisted all along that he discussed the Egrant inquiry with nobody, not even with Keith Schembri, his boss, who is cited in the report conclusion.
• He insisted that the copy was always under lock and key inside his office.
• Mr Farrugia says inquiry proved that Egrant story was fabricated.

10.08am: Mr Farrugia leaves the witness stand. The case is adjourned until December 10.

10.04am: So what did Joseph Muscat ask where it came to the inquiry, the lawyer asks Mr Farrugia.

"He generally asked me for information... I cannot answer that without going into the contents."

Mr Farrugia insists there was never anyone else in the room when the Prime Minister asked him for further information.

Since he did not have a legal background, he would need to consult Minister Owen Bonnici or lawyer Pawlu Lia.

9.50am: The lawyer turns his focus again on Kurt Farrugia. He asks if Matthew Carbone, deputy communications officer at OPM read the inquiry. The answer is 'no'.

The judge asks whether he had spoken to other colleagues in his office.

"Probably yes. That day, all my staff were there. All we had been saying for months had been proved right," Mr Farrugia replies.

Dr Galea asks Mr Farrugia whether he could exclude that others could have laid their hands on the Egrant inquiry. After all, there is a picture of a hard copy of the inquiry sitting at the Office of the Prime Minister. (see picture below).

Mr Farrugia says the picture of the inquiry was taken in the Prime Minister's personal office. 

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He insists he had kept a copy of the report under lock and key, discussing with his staff only the conclusions.

9.45am: Luke Dalli returns to the courtroom. Also present is Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia. 

9.43am: Victoria Buttigieg, the lawyer from the AG's office interrupts Dr Galea. 

"You object to everything, even if I say 'good morning'," Dr Galea hits back. 

9.40am: "I discussed the inquiry with nobody," the OPM communications chief insists, after the lawyer asks how it was possible that no minister, or chief of staff asked him anything about the Egrant conclusions.

Mr Farrugia goes on to talk about the impact that the Egrant claims had on the Prime Minister's political future: 

"We had been facing allegations for 15 months and the Prime Minister had put his job on the line. Then it turned out that it had been a fabricated story which proved all we had been saying."

9.32am: Lawyer Luke Dalli makes a remark, sparking an objection from Vincent Galea. Luke Dalli leaves the courtroom. 

9.25am: Lawyer Vincent Galea grills Mr Farrugia: "The Prime Minister said he had read parts of the inquiry. How did he do this if you have his copy?"

The Prime Minister said he had read parts of inquiry. How did he do this if you have his copy?

"Why don't you ask the Prime Minister," Mr Farrugia replies. "I always abided by the conclusions and I never had the need to communicate anything related to other parts."

He insists he had no electronic copy and adds: "When the Prime Minister passes on a confidential document I don’t hand it to someone else."

Mr Farrugia also insists he had no contact with the Attorney General. 

9.15am: He says he was informed by the Prime Minister, Justice Minister Owen Bonnici and lawyer Pawlu Lia, that the inquiry completely absolved Joseph Muscat. 

"The conclusions were so strong that I felt I didn't need to consult any other part of report," he tells court. 

He says he was given a copy of the full inquiry report on the day the Prime Minister held a televised press conference.

He began to help the Prime Minister with the statement early on Sunday before the televised press conference. A good part of that statement had been written by Joseph Muscat himself.

Mr Farrugia says he did not communicate details of the inquiry with Labour Party's head of communications Aleander Balzan. 

9.12am: Kurt Farrugia, spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister, takes the witness stand. Lawyer Vincent Galea says other witnesses have said he had the full Egrant copy.

Mr Farrugia says the Prime Minister told him he would not keep the inquiry totally to himself and would make a public statement since he had staked his post on its outcome.

9.10am: Some background: A magisterial inquiry last July found no documentation linking the Muscat family to the allegations, with a UK-based forensic accounting firm also failing to find any evidence linking the Muscats to Egrant on Pilatus Bank servers. 

In 49 pages of conclusions published by the Attorney General’s office, the magistrate cast doubts on several aspects on the testimony of former Pilatus employee Maria Efimova and found that many of the allegations, first published by Daphne Caruana Galizia in April 2017, were not backed by proof.

9.08am: Testifying last month, the Justice Minister said he did not discuss Egrant inquiry report with anyone. The Prime Minister said only three people have access to the inquiry: Lawyer Pawlu Lia, the Justice Minister and OPM communications chief Kurt Farrugia.

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But the public and the Opposition still don't have a copy of the full Egrant report.

Read: Egrant inquiry finds falsified signatures, differing testimonies and no proof

9am: Speaking under oath during a two-hour long hearing in September, Attorney General Peter Grech said that he had first given Joseph Muscat a photocopied version of the full Egrant inquiry report and then sent Justice Minister Owen Bonnici an electronic copy some days later.