THE Supreme Court will hand down its judgment on whether or not the Scottish Parliament has the legislative competence to hold a referendum without Westminster’s consent - but there are several ways the ruling could go.
Nicola Sturgeon asked Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain to refer the case to the UK’s highest court in an attempt to break the constitutional deadlock, because every Tory prime minister since 2014 has refused to grant a Section 30 order to allow the vote to go ahead.
