Overview

• MI5 admitted “failings and errors” after acknowledging that part of its court submissions was false.
• A High Court judge declared he has “no confidence” in MI5’s explanation and ordered the service to hand over classified documents.
• Sir James Eadie KC said internal investigations revealed shortcomings and determined the errors were unintentional but necessitated an unequivocal apology.
• BBC counsel Jude Bunting KC told judges that “person B” within MI5 had “deliberately and repeatedly lie[d]” and departed from the neither confirm nor deny policy.
• The hearing before senior judges will conclude this afternoon and decide what measures should be taken in response to MI5’s misleading of the court.