THE UK Government kept up efforts to have the Supreme Court independence referendum case thrown out altogether as its top law officer gave evidence the Lord Advocate described as "belittling".
On the second and final day of the constitutional showdown in London, Sir James Eadie KC, representing the Advocate General for Scotland, spent most of his time arguing that the reference should be tossed rather than engaging with any of the substantive arguments.
Eadie refused to address the SNP’s written submission which set out the argument for Scotland’s right to self-determination, instead claiming that the Lord Advocate had brought a “strange” case to the UK’s highest court with arguments that go against “common sense”.
