Scottish Parliament

Lord Wallace urges Holyrood to accept UK referendum law
Saturday 21 January 2012

SCOTLAND'S Advocate-General and former Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace yesterday said the Scottish Government must ensure its independence referendum is legally binding, warning: "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins."

MSPs support devolved polls
Friday 20 January 2012

MSPs have backed calls for the running of all Scottish elections to be devolved.

Lord Wallace must give his reasons for rejecting Supreme Court plea
Friday 20 January 2012

It is most regrettable that the politically appointed Advocate General Lord Wallace should have dismissed in such a cavalier fashion a reasoned request from Scotland's most senior judge, Lord Hamilton, the Lord President ("Top judge snubbed in Supreme Court row", The Herald, January 19).

MSP urges expat referendum rights
Thursday 19 January 2012

SCOTS living outside Scotland should be able to register to vote in the independence referendum on the same basis as expatriate UK citizens can vote in UK elections, a Labour MSP has claimed.

Single-question vote would be a threat to devolution
Thursday 19 January 2012

While I broadly agree with Iain AD Mann's suggestion that there should be two questions in the forthcoming independence referendum to take account of the so-called "devo-max option" and that they should not be presented as an either/or choice but in sequence (Letters, January 17), I would also recommend different wording together with a reverse order of the questions.