An SNP Minister has quit over Government plans to make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised gender.
12.10.2022 - 16:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
SNP ministers have been accused of "farming out" IndyRef2 legislation to the Supreme Court because they didn't like answers from their top law officer.
James Eadie KC was speaking on the second day of a hearing in London on who has the power to call a referendum on Scottish independence.
The top lawyer, representing the UK Government, accused the Scottish Government of only turning to the Supreme Court because its plan to stage a vote could not be cleared by its own advisers.
Westminster has refused to agree to Nicola Sturgeon's plan to hold a referendum next year and claims powers over the matter are reserved.
Eadie claimed the problem in the case was the Scottish Government did "not like" an answer it received from the Lord Advocate on whether Holyrood can stage a referendum without prior approval from Westminster.
He told a panel of five judges that legislation put forward by Sturgeon was at too early a stage for the Supreme Court to rule on.
Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, representing the Scottish Government, had yesterday called on the court to solve the "festering issue" of who had the power to call a referendum on independence. But Eadie today rejected that argument and claimed it risked “dragging the court into the political process”.
He told the court that a person in charge of a Bill at Holyrood must make a “positive” statement that it is within the competence of the Scottish Parliament. The barrister said this was part of the “pre-legislative safeguards” that exist in law, and with the UK Parliament including such a provision so someone in charge of a Bill can “pin their colours to the public mast on competence”.
“It is for the person in charge of the Bill to form that view,” he said, adding it is not “simply to
An SNP Minister has quit over Government plans to make it easier for people to change their legally-recognised gender.
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