sep 19, 2023 - Scottish Government Begins Legal Challenge against Westminster

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Scottish ministers will mount a court challenge to the UK government’s veto of Holyrood’s gender recognition reform bill, setting up the new first minister, Humza Yousaf, for a constitutional showdown only two weeks after his election as SNP leader.

Scotland’s social justice secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville, announced on Wednesday that ministers would lodge a petition for a judicial review of the UK’sScottish secretary Alister Jack’s decision in January to use section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 to prevent the Holyrood bill from going for royal assent.

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