The finest QCs in all of Twitterdom have made much out of the Johnson government, firing off law suits at the drop of the hat. But while token victories at London’s High Court are trumpeted as earth-shattering defeats for the wicked Tories, the shenanigans of Nicola Sturgeon’s government in Scotland get far less publicity in the Fleet Street press. For this week the SNP regime was (again) found guilty of breaching laws regarding freedom of information.
For the Scotsman newspaper has won a decisive victory this week, forcing ministers to publish legal advice they received about a second independence referendum after a thirteen-month battle between the paper and the Scottish Government. It will be the first time any aspect of Holyrood’s official position on the legality of indyref2 will be made public, with lawyers in both Edinburgh and London split on whether the Scottish Parliament has the power to pass a law mandating such a plebiscite.
It is merely the latest setback for Sturgeon’s administration after a series of defeats which forced ministers to reveal
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