Asked about that report, Davidson told BBC Radio Scotland on Friday that she believed legal action would be needed to test the “very complex, finely balanced legal situation” in court. The UK government insists Westminster must have supreme authority over the UK’s legal and constitutional arrangements. This legal dispute intensified after Ken Macintosh, the presiding officer of the Scottish parliament, ruled earlier this week that Holyrood did not have the legal power to implement the Scottish government’s bill. Scotland’s lord advocate, James Wolffe QC, has told ministers in Edinburgh that they do have those legal powers. Elin Jones, the presiding officer of the Welsh assembly, has also contradicted Macintosh by saying the Welsh bill is legally competent.

Source: The Guardian March 02, 2018 12:56 UTC