Salmond. Salmond pursued a judicial review and it was accepted the internal Government probe had been unlawful.The fiasco destroyed the friendship between Sturgeon and Salmond, whose allies believe he was targeted by the Government and SNP figures.James Hamilton, an ex director of public prosecutions in Ireland, is leading a separate probe into whether Sturgeon broke her own ministerial code.This relates to meetings and phone calls Sturgeon had with her predecessor in the middle of her Government’s investigation.It emerged recently that Salmond’s team, as part of his submission, shared with the Committee his submission to the Hamilton probe.In the document, Salmond accused his one-time protege of breaches of the Ministerial Code of Conduct.
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