THE Scottish Information Commissioner has asked the country's highest court for an "urgent" hearing on Alex Salmond's refusal to say whether he has any legal advice on the status of an independent Scotland in Europe, according to official papers obtained by the Sunday Herald.
Rosemary Agnew warned the law had been thrown into "significant uncertainty" by the First Minister's action, and identified a Government trend in refusing to say whether information existed, with seven other recent examples.
She said the Government's view of the law was "very substantially at odds" with her own.
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