Scotland’s highest legal authority, lord advocate Dorothy Bain, has said it may well be unlawful for first minister Nicola Sturgeon to call a second independence referendum without London’s blessing. “In the present case, the lord advocate does not have the necessary degree of confidence [of the legality of the move], Bain said in a letter to the British Supreme Court, The Guardian reports.
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