Everybody Knows the War is Over. Everybody knows the Good Guys Lost - Part 7 (Critique of Nicola Sturgeon by Denise Findlay, 23 Nov 2021)

"Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air"

Everybody Knows the War is Over. Everybody knows the Good Guys Lost - Part 7 by Denise Findlay, The Tide is Turning (23 Nov 2021)

In early 2021 Sturgeon’s is riding high. She has reasserted her authority in the party and the polls bode well for the upcoming Holyrood election. Sturgeon just has to get through the various inquiries into her government’s handling of complaints against Alex Salmond. There are three inquiries: the Holyrood Committee investigating the Sturgeon Government’s complaints procedure; an inquiry by James Hamilton QC into whether Sturgeon breached ministerial code; and a review of the complaints procedure by Laura Dunlop QC.

The strategy by Sturgeon’s government in relation to the inquiries is to suppress as much evidence as possible: she can’t have the full truth coming out. To do this they rely on several legal arguments:

• The anonymity of the complainants, which is assisted by Lady Dorrian’s unprecedented anonymity ruling;

• The confidentiality of government legal advice; and

• A little-known law whereby materials obtained by the defence in the building of a legal case cannot be made public.

This last law means that, although Salmond and his lawyers have evidence of a conspiracy, this evidence cannot be released to the inquiry.
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