Msgr Joseph Bajada, M.S.Th., J.C.D (Spec. In Iurisprudentia), Cap.S.S., was born in 1950, in Msida, Malta. He is a Senior Lecturer in Canon Law, in the Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Laws, University of Malta.

In 1977, he was ordained to the priesthood. That same year, he was awarded a Masters in Theology at the University of Malta. Between 1977 and 1982, he read for a Licentiate in Canon Law (J.C.L.) at the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome. Joseph Bajada defended his doctoral thesis in 1987 summa cum laude, following an intensive course for a Specialisation in Canonical Jurisprudence [J.C.D.(Spec. in Iurisprudentia)], at the same Gregorian University. The thesis was published by the Gregorian University, in the Series Analecta Gregoriana, n. 252, in 1988. In October 1981, he was appointed Defender of the Bond on the Metropolitan Tribunal of Malta, and a Judge on the First Instance Metropolitan Tribunal, in 1987. In November 2001, he was appointed by the Maltese Episcopal Conference as Judicial Vicar of the Regional Tribunal of Second Instance, with competence over cases originating in Malta, Gozo and Gibraltar. In 1990, Joseph Bajada founded the “Diploma Course of Studies in Canonical Marriage Cases, Jurisprudence and Procedure”, which is currently a two-year course of studies, intended to provide for the formation of personnel in ecclesiastical tribunals. The Course was approved and established by the Maltese Episcopal Conference. He is the Director and Main Lecturer since its inception. Furthermore, in 1990, he also founded and has edited ever since FORUM: A Review of Canon Law and Jurisprudence, published biannually, with subscribers in 33 countries. He is a member of the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

• Żwieġ, Divorzju u Annullamenti, Klabb Qari Nisrani, Sensiela Fatti u Tagħrif, n.3, 1983.
• L-Għazla fiż-Żwieġ, Pubblikazzjoni tat-Tribunal Ekkleżjastiku, 1995.
• L-Evangelizzazzjoni fil-Kodici tal-Liġi Kanonika, in KNISJA 2000, 1(1988).  
• Due discretion and Incapacity to marry, PASTOR vol. XIX, n.188, 1986
• The invalidating force of homosexuality in the recent jurisprudence of the Roman Rota, PASTOR, XX, nn.198-199, 1987
• Iż-Żwieġ illum, FAMILJAKANA, n. 318, 1989,
• The 1983 Code of Canon Law. FORUM. I(1990)1: 54 - 69.
• The procedural ëiterí in a case for the declaration of the nullity of marriage in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, FORUM, I(1990)2, 44 - 71.
• Tribunals and Pastoral Solicitude, FORUM, V(1994)2, 57 - 64.
• The Tribunal's Advocate: A Minister of Truth in Justice, FORUM, V(1994)2, 65 - 76.
• Catechesis in the Code of Canon Law, FORUM, II(1991)1, 55 - 63.
• Ha nfittex l-annullament, FAMILJAKANA, Frar 2001, nr. 446, 18-21.
• Nullity of Marriage. Lack of discretion of judgment and inability to assume marital obligations, FORUM, I(1990)1, 143 - 165.
• Nullity of Marriage. Lack of discretion of judgment. Inability to assume marital obligations. Exclusion of indissolubility, FORUM, I(1990)2, 72 - 95.
• Nullity of Marriage. Reverential Fear. Lack of discretion of judgment, FORUM, II(1991)2, 156 - 192.
• Nullity of Marriage. Lack of discretion of judgment. Inability to assume marital obligations, FORUM, III(1992)2, 138 - 183.
• Nullity of Marriage. Inability to assume marital obligations, FORUM, IV(1993)2, 151 - 192.
• Nullity of Marriage, Exclusion of Children and Indissolubility, FORUM, V(1994)2, 121 - 145.
• Nullity of marriage. Total simulation. Inability to assume marital obligations, in FORUM, VII(1996)2:427-451.
• Nullity of Marriage. Inability to assume marital obligations, in FORUM, VIII(1997)2:409-440.
• Nullity of Marriage. Condition, FORUM, IX(1998)2:69-119.
• Sexual Impotence, The Contribution of Paolo Zacchia (1584-1659), Analecta Gregoriana, 252, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome 1988.