Blimey, MI5 escaped lightly here!
> The Lady Chief Justice today announced the Divisional Court’s decision that it would not be in the public interest for the court to initiate contempt proceedings against individual MI5 officers or MI5 itself ... arising out of the giving by MI5 of false evidence to the High Court.
https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/hm-attorney-general-v-bbc-and-others/
@neil I bet if you or I gave false evidence in a High Court case we wouldn't be given a slap on the wrists and told not to do it again.
Not that MI5 have a habit of mis-speaking in court.