Which court could block a referendum?
Would the legal battle over Scottish independence be decided in Edinburgh or London?
An interesting comment by Andrew Neill this afternoon in nine tweets (see below).
He’s right to say we have all been predicting that a UK law officer would ask the UK Supreme Court under section 33 of the Scotland Act 1998 whether legislation authorising an independence referendum was within the Scottish parliament’s competence.
And he’s also right about …
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