I think the decision would have been the same. I basically found that he had done the job expected of him as an assistant in the Prime Minister's Office. He had simply looked into a long-standing court case that had gone on for about 10 years. It was quite reasonable that he asked the department what was going on with that. I found that he had not interfered with the process at the public service level.
On March 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.