Court expert Martin Bajada can remain assigned to both the magisterial inquiry and the compliation of evidence in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case, a judge ruled on Tuesday.

In an urgent constitutional application filed in March 2018, lawyers for one of the three men accused with the murder - Alfred Degiorgio - argued that Martin Bajada's appointment to the case violated their client's fundamental human rights.

Mr Bajada is an IT and mobile phone expert who continues to enjoy the trust of several members of Malta's judiciary, despite having been convicted of theft and fraud back in 1993.

Mr Justice Silvio Meli quoted extensively from case law to explain that the circumstances did not pose any danger to Mr Degiorgio’s human rights and he therefore dismissed his application.

Mr Degiogio's lawyers had also objected to the fact that foreign experts had been working in tandem with IT expert Martin Bajada, in the compilation of evidence for the criminal case.

Dr Bajada had been appointed a day after the journalist’s assassination on October 16, 2017 and it was his findings which led to the arrest of 10 suspects and the subsequent arraignment of three of them, namely Mr Degiorgio and his brother George, and Vince Muscat.