The Damian Green affair obviously dominates today’s opening of Parliament – and so it should. For once, Parliament’s grand gaudy show coincides with a chance for it to really show what it can do: hold government to account, express the […]

I profoundly disagree with Unity’s article yesterday about the Damian Green business at Liberal Conspiracy. I think in his loyalty to the Labour government he’s allowed his re-reaction to the Conservative reaction to this affair to spill […]

My former lecturing colleague, the Guardian’s new legal correspondent Afua Hirsch, has written today at Comment is Free about the Green/Galley affair – she doesn’t think it’s likely to go anywhere – and the line between whistleblowing and misconduct.

The Speaker and the Leader of the House will no doubt be under pressure to allow a debate on the Damian Green/Christopher Galley leakgate affair after Parliament opens tomorrow – and so they should, as early as possible, and allowing […]

Sam Coates at Red Box has apparently been given differing views about how bad misconduct has to be in order to count for the purposes of the criminal offence of misconduct in a public office.

Lawyers […]

Joshua Rozenberg thinks Christopher Galley’s press conferences means charges against him or Damian Green are unlikely – I hope he’s proved right. It’s quite correct of course that CPS lawyers would need to conclude a prosecution was in the […]

Here’s the full statement released today by Bindmans solicitors about their client, Christopher Galley – the Home Office civil servant who (the statement admits) passed on information to Damian Green MP. The statement makes clear that Mr. Galley believes […]

I’m concerned that press and political comment on the Damian Green affair is ignoring the situation of the civil servant who’s also been arrested – and thereby missing the really important point behind all this.

It’s morally inconsistent and […]

A particularly interest aspect of the law relating to the Damian Green case came out in my discussion with Charon QC earlier. You’ll remember that he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public […]

Charon QC interviewed me this morning about the Damian Green arrest: we discussed what offences he’s suspected of, ministers’ denial of prior knowledge of the arrest, the Parliamentary privilege aspect and the role of the Speaker, and wider issues […]