• Big_Twerp@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It’s essentially an honour based system so there’s no real consequences.

    Although… I do wonder if there are grounds for the charge of misconduct in a public office. Johnson’s behaviour seems to meet some of the tests set by CPS but I expect it would need to be referred to them and that will never happen.

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      1 year ago

      The committee said he lied while under oath in giving evidence to the committee. If proven this is perjury. That is not held under a convention, this is law.

      If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, he shall be guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof on indictment, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to imprisonment . . . F1 for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both such penal servitude or imprisonment and fine.