A Westminster proposal to ensure that super-injunctions granted by the English High Court will apply to Scotland has been attacked by First Minister Alex Salmond as a threat to ''one of the pillars of Scottish nationhood".
Salmond has described the plan as "deeply flawed", and said it had been suggested by politicians who did not "want to understand" the country's independent legal system.
A special Westminster committee was formed last year in response to the growing number of superinjunctions granted by the courts.
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