Under the code, NSW ministers must disclose potential conflict matters with anyone in an ‘intimate personal relationship’

Legal experts have warned that Gladys Berejiklian is likely to have breached the state’s ministerial code of conduct by failing to disclose her secret relationship with the disgraced former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire.

In the witness box of the Independent Commission Against Corruption last week, the New South Wales premier defined her involvement with Maguire as a “close personal relationship” but said it had not been of “sufficient status” to disclose.