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Sep 24, 2020 13 tweets 2 min read Read on X
We are now less than 7 days from what is known as the by-order roll hearing. This hearing is to establish the schedule and process moving forward where parties are unable to agree. It is also the point where things should become public in terms of the arguments made.
We are hoping this hearing will also be available for public consumption. With COVID 19, the courts are currently conducting many of the hearings by teleconferencing and by video conferencing.
As you are aware, there have been several developments in the last month, not least the First Ministers announcement of a draft bill to be laid before the Scottish Parliament.
If the Scottish National Party intends to stand for Holyrood in 2021 on the promise of a draft bill, then that bill must have a solid legal foundation, otherwise, it would be immediately challenged by the UK Government.
To state otherwise would be a non sequitur and risk a situation where the promise of a second referendum would be nothing more than a perfunctory promise without foundation, failing to take account of the fact (which is exactly what happened with the continuity bill) would...
...be a grievous error.
It could ultimately lead to a broken promise of epic proportions resulting in massive constitutional paralysis and years of court battles to establish the legitimacy of the bill after the fact, exactly the scenario we have been warning about for the past year.
The constitutionality of the Scottish Parliament being able to legislate for a second referendum must be elucidated before any bill is put before parliament. This is exactly the scenario we foresaw and the scenario that this case is designed to avoid.
We have been in constant communication with the Advocate General and the Lord Advocate on exactly this point, mentioning specifically, that the SNP’s promise of that bill and the current circumstances completely eradicates any argument of this action ...
...being premature, hypothetical or academic. From those communications, we have been able to ascertain that the Scottish Government is anticipated to lay that draft bill before parliament in March 2021, immediately before the 2021 Election.
As political observers, we believe that there is strong anecdotal evidence that the bill already exists in some form and there appears to be an attempt to obfuscate its existence.
As the bill is directly relevant to our case and the matters under discussion, we have called upon them to provide it.

Yesterday, I gave the go-ahead to file a motion for the specification of those documents in the court of session which will be filed on Friday. A copy is above
Over the next week, there should be several different announcements as we move closer to the hearing and, as always, I shall keep you all up to date.

Sincerely

Martin Keatings
Convener
Forward as One

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Feb 17, 2021
You all know that the #PeoplesAS30 is about the future of Scotland. What you might not be aware is that due to the pandemic, every single aspect of this case has been conducted digitally from start to finish.
The entirety of this case has used technology, which mere weeks before it, was never used by the court and by the time it ends, the case will have likely been the very first constitutional case ran digital from start to finish. In other words a test case for modernisation...
....of the Scottish Courts system.

This is kind of appropriate if you think about it - a case about the future of Scotland being one of the first cases fought from start to finish in a modernised court system.
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Jan 6, 2021
With the case only 2 weeks away, we've been asked by a number of people when we're doing another twitter storm for the case.

So! From tonight at 8pm we'll be doing another social media storm for the case.
We are asking everyone to mobilise on social media from 8pm tonight using the hashtag #peoplesAS30 (Peoples Action on Section 30).

We'd appreciate it if you could share the case fundraiser here which has been re-opened: crowdjustice.com/case/pas30/
I have also prepared a 2 tweet thread here:

This thread has the 5 most important documents from the case for people who don't know anything about it and is a great resource to give to anyone with questions.
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Nov 4, 2020
I am pleased to announce that today, Lady Carmichael has ruled in our favour during a hearing conducted by video conferencing.
The decision has been made not to allow the Lord Advocate or Advocate General to place further procedural barriers in the way of this case coming before the court for a full hearing.
She has ruled that a number of weeks of exchanging written arguments between parties will now take place, in order to make things more efficient. This will be immediately followed by the case being scheduled to be heard in full before the court of session in a 2-day hearing)
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Oct 30, 2020
Individuals requesting access to the hearing on the 4th at the Court of Session have received a reply with information on how to gain access to view proceedings. It seems that the court has decided to publish the details publicly. Therefore we're sharing what has been advised...
...so that the court is not inundated with emails.

In their response to requests for access they said:
For those interested in dialling-in to the Martin Keatings v the Advocate General & Others hearing on 4 November, please see the Scottish Courts and Tribunals web page for access details - which will be published once available.
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Aug 21, 2020
Dear Backers,

Last nights social media event went much better than expected and as a result, at the point of writing this email, we are less than £11,500 from our £155K target. Not to mention the fact that my inbox was inundated with press enquiries.
So! With that in mind, we think that if we can get one last push by repeating the same tonight, we can hit our target by Monday morning and have a bit of a Monday morning surprise for the UK Government.
So! Please read carefully

We have a small favour to ask.

Tonight at 8 pm exactly, we ask that you send out a post or tweet on social media which includes the hashtag #peoplesAS30 and the link below.

Link: crowdjustice.com/case/pas30/
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Aug 17, 2020
Dear Backers and Followers. Game On!

Tonight I update you on the fact that we're now going to court.
We have now received the interlocutor confirming that the closed record has been received by the court and a By Order (Adjustment) Roll hearing has been fixed for Wednesday 30 September.
In English: The interlocutor is the order of the court which states that they accept the "closed record". The closed record is basically a combined folder of all the pleadings (submissions) for ourselves and for the other parties to the case, all organised into an ...
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