Scotland Bill

Indeed, I can confirm that the Lord Advocate has referred cases directly to the Supreme Court; the so-called ““sons of Cadder”” cases were on references by the Lord Advocate to the Supreme Court within the last 12 months. So it clearly has been done. Those were cases clearly where there was a wish to get clarity in some of the implications of the original Cadder judgment. So there are certainly good arguments as to why that should be there, and ones that I am certainly prepared to listen to further.