MPs and peers decide to face down lawyers in super-injunction gagging row In a letter, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, to every member of the 26-strong committee, as well as to the Attorney General and Speaker of the House of Commons, the firm asked the committee to remove the submission "as a matter of extreme urgency" and warned that its continued publication would have diplomatic consequences. However, the 26-strong committee has decided to stand by its decision to publish the document. One member said: "They seem to think that they can bully little Parliamentarians - but they can't." John Whittingdale, the committee's chairman, said last week that Mr Burby's evidence was an "interesting and relevant submission," given that his committee had been told by judges that super-injunctions were now "time-limited." By Wednesday night Archerfield Partners was adopting a more conciliatory tone. In another letter to the committee, which was also leaked to The Daily Telegraph, the firm offered to make a separate submission to the committee. It said: "Given that we have now been identified as the lawyers that Mr Burby makes various untrue allegations about by the 'leaking' of our letter, please confirm that you will give this firm the opportunity to make a formal submission to the committee." The attempt to bully the committee was seen as a bid to undermine the supremacy of Parliament. Archerfield had also threatened The Daily Telegraph with an injunction ahead of its reporting of Mr Burby's submission on Friday night.