Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson has quit, declaring his relationship with Attorney-General, George Brandis, is “irretrievably broken” and taking a major swipe at his government critics.

Gleeson’s resignation follows their bitter row over Brandis’s order that all requests for the Solicitor-General’s advice must come through his office.

In a toughly-worded letter to Brandis, Gleeson says his decision does not represent “a withdrawal of any position I have taken in relation to matters of controversy between us”, including before the Senate inquiry into the affair.

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