"On Thursday, a bookish civil servant called Derek Pasquill will be remanded by Westminster magistrates to the Crown Court to face six charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act." … over leaks to the Observer and New Statesman…

"On Sept 27, Derek Pasquill, an official at the Foreign Office, was charged with six counts under the Official Secrets Act. He is due to appear in court on October 11."

Jo Glanville: "More than 50 years since Anthony Eden invaded Egypt, there are still documents which Whitehall refuses to release."

Richard Norton Taylor: "The Guardian, Time, BBC, and Index on Censorship, will appeal against these orders next week."

"One worrying aspect of this case is that the jury convicted. There has been a historic reluctance of juries to convict in OSA cases, because they tend to sympathise with the defendants and not with the draconian legislation."