Lib Dem MP’s lawyer tells election court that petition from constituents over leaked Nicola Sturgeon memo is ‘bound to fail’A lawyer for the former Scotland secretary Alistair Carmichael has told judges in Edinburgh that attempts to throw him out of the Commons have no basis in law and must be rejected.
A scarce election court sitting in Scotland’s civil courts was told by his counsel Roddy Dunlop QC that an attempt by some of Carmichael’s constituents in Orkney and Shetland to unseat him are “mistaken in law” and “bound to fail”.
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Source: theguardian.com