JOANNA Cherry has said she is “cautiously optimistic” indyref2 will be granted by the Supreme Court as the hearing kicked off in London on Tuesday morning.
One of the SNP’s top legal minds, the MP for Edinburgh South West, said the written submissions from her party – who were given special permission to intervene in the case, separately from the Scottish Government – complemented rather than contradicted the case put forward by the Lord Advocate.
Critics of the SNP have suggested the case put forward by Dorothy Bain, the Scottish Government’s lawyer in the hearing, essentially argues a second referendum on independence, because it is advisory and not legally binding, is at odds with the party’s arguments another vote is fundamental to the human rights of Scots.
