Carloway recommends ‘radical overhaul’ of Scotland’s criminal justice system
Judge Lord Carloway’s review of Scotland’s criminal justice system was prompted by the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the Cadder case which requires legal advice to be available to a suspect before any...
View ArticleAsking about Scottish Government’s legal advice on EU membership is the wrong...
The right question is what sort of an idiot government whose raison d’etre is to achieve Scottish independence, would want to take Scotland into an EU whose only way forward to survival is universally...
View ArticleLegal advice that never was
Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, told the chamber today that the Scottish Government had, in fact, not previously sought legal advice from its own law officers on whether or not an independent...
View ArticleLabour MEP asks First Minister to refer himself on possible breach of...
Catherine Stihler, the Labout MEP who has diligently pursued the matter of the ‘legal advice’ on the position of an independent Scotland in the EU which the First Minister has consistently given the...
View ArticleSalmond: Legal opinion ‘will inform White Paper’. How can we be sure?
Alex Salmond has repeatedly claimed that an independent Scotland would be given automatic EU membership as ‘a successor state’.The universal impression he and bis colleagues gave was that they had...
View ArticleSingle handed probe into First Minister’s observance of the ministerial code
When the team was announced to adjudicate on the First Minister’s self referred observance of the ministerial code in the matter of the legal advice that never was on EU membership, it contained three...
View ArticleJohann Lamont right on all counts as FM apologises for misleading Scottish...
Johann Lamont, Scottish Labour Leader, went in to bat at First Minister’s Questions this afternoon, well armed with assured facts on the funding of Scotland’s colleges.She also went in hard on the...
View ArticleLabour seek review of Scottish Ministerial Code – but why now?
The Labour group at Holyrood are asking for a review towards establishing a new code of conduct for Scottish Ministers, one which would be independently adjudicated.They are doing so because, for the...
View ArticleDisputes over control of support staff in legal mess with new unitary police...
The enabling legislation which set up the new unitary police authority for Scotland has fallen at the first hurdle.There is an underplayed turf war going on between Stephen House, former Chief...
View ArticleEC President’s ruling on membership not a real issue
The furore in the political hen coop today at the EC President’s pronouncement -that a new state seceding from an existing EU member state would have to reapply for membership as the newly independent...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland repeats call for support for local land ownership in...
Confusion continues over precisely what the Scottish Government has and has not done in reopening, to an unknown extent, the issue of the award of shooting and fishing fishing rights for the Isle of...
View ArticleArgyll and Bute Council settle expensively with former Communications Manager
Argyll and Bute Council has settled out of court with Jo Smith, its former Communications Manager who was suspended, investigated and finally sacked for describing herself at a conference of her peers...
View ArticleLaw Society asks for answers from Scottish Government as Osborne prepares...
It was revealed in the national media at the weekend that the Chancellor, George Osborne, is now preparing the conditions that would be required were an independent Scotland ask to remain in the...
View ArticleSNP welcomes overnight counts for Independence Referendum
The following press release has just come in from the SNP media team:‘A commitment to allow overnight ballot counts in the Referendum Bill Committee’s Stage 1 Report has been welcomed by the SNP.‘The...
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Scare stories and blatant puffs as pros and antis focus on an independent...
[Update: Ohio image added] The pro-United Kingdom consensus needs to protest as much as anyone against ridiculous scare stories. All these do is mask the indisputable facts of the inadequacy, not of a...
View ArticleSalmond judgment under question in second deception on EU membership
The core issue arising from Alex Salmond’s deceptive presentation of a letter on Scottish membership of the EU at yesterday’s First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood is less about the act of deception...
View ArticleConcerns raised on loss of perspective in Salmond’s rant at Spain...
Two senior British civil servants were recently invited to Madrid by Spain’s Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to discuss with Spanish civil servants the independence referendum to take place in Scotland...
View ArticlePolitical funding the story of the day
As the SNP is announced to have been given yet another £1 by mega Euromillions winners Chris and Colin Weir – seeing the party and the Yes campaign together get a whacking £5.5 million from a single...
View ArticlePermanent Secretary to Scottish Government steps down to mixed reviews
64 year old Sir Peter Housden, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government – Head of the Scottish Civil Service – has announced that he is standing down at the end of June this year, 2015, to allow...
View ArticleScottish Leaders’ debate produces the epitome of political hypocrisy
Politicians have the oddest of sensibilities.In last night’s BBC Scottish Leaders’ debate there was a spat between Conservative Leader, Ruth Davidson and Labour Leader, Jim Murphy.While Murphy was...
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