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Lord advocate offers Supreme Court two opposing views on indyref2

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Aug 18, 2022
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At the end of June, I reported that the UK Supreme Court would be asked to consider whether Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon had the power to initiate a second referendum on Scottish independence. New readers may want to start there.

The Supreme Court has provisionally scheduled a hearing for 11 and 12 October.1 This piece will consider the lega…

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