MR Tickle, governments do not go into court against each other, do they?” That was Tavish Scott, back in September 2015, scrutinising me unsympathetically across the committee room table in Holyrood. I’d suggested that ambiguities in the Scotland Bill – which was then slowly progressing through Westminster – had the potential to generate litigation. People, I argued, would fall out over what powers Holyrood did and did not have. And sometimes when people fall out, they go to law. Such a challenge might be brought by an ordinary punter with an axe to grind and money to spend. Or it might play out between governments, as Westminster jostled with Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast – and the devolved administrations jostled back – over the legal limits of their powers.
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