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27.11.2022 - 16:19 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Nicola Sturgeon has spent over £260,000 of taxpayers’ cash fighting failed Supreme Court cases against the UK Government. Sources have confirmed that the legal bill for the First Minister’s doomed battle to hold a second independence referendum without the consent of Westminster will top £130,000.
She pursued the case despite the fact her Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain said at the outset of the case she did not have the necessary degree of confidence that a referendum would be legal. Bain then agreed to make a referral to the Supreme Court to give a ruling on the issue after being asked to do so by Sturgeon.
Last week five judges concluded unanimously that she was right in the first place and that the Scottish Government cannot lawfully introduce legislation proposing an independence referendum without the approval of Westminster.
In 2018 taxpayers were again left with a £131,900 legal bill following the SNP’s failed attempt to introduce its own Brexit Bill. Ministers spent the money on external legal advice, court fees and administration costs.
They pushed ahead with the Continuity Bill in March 2018, despite Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh advising it was outwith Holyrood’s remit.
A legal source said: “It is a lot of taxpayers money to spend on cases that any good lawyer would have advised from the outset was not going to be successful.
“It will be around £260,000 for those two cases alone and that is if the UK Government don’t pursue Holyrood for its expenses in having to send lawyers to court to fight the action.”
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said: “Having faced a humiliating defeat in the Supreme Court, we now learn that the SNP have thrown away a shocking amount of tax payer money on this
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