Thread by @MartinJKeatings

Evening All,

Obviously, this mornings update was done quickly on the back of the ruling having just arrived.

Counsel has spent the day going much deeper into the ruling and while I am not able to go through everything at this stage, what I can say is that our grounds for the inner house of court of session are stronger than we first thought. Which is great.

Joanna Cherry also piped up this afternoon, being a QC she had a good read of the judgement. Her assessment was put out on Twitter:

"Opinion of Lady Carmichael in #PeoplesAS30 #Keatings case is a long read but those crowing about a loss at 1st instance would do well to remember that both the #Wightman & #Cherry cases were lost at the 1st hurdle but won on appeal "

And she's right on the mark with this. Both the Article 50 case and the prorogation case brought by Andy Wightman and Joanna Cherry, respectively, went through exactly the same thing at the first hurdle. But both were won on appeal.

Also, it's worth pointing out who counsel were in both cases.

One good thing about today's judgement is that Lady Carmichael also ruled against the defender's arguments and repelled them.

She cleared out and dismissed some of the nonsense arguments which we faced – notably that this should have been done as a judicial review and should be dismissed or that the Scotland Act 1998 formed a complete constitutional code which precluded any court action relative....

to the actions or inaction of the power of the Scottish Parliament or Scottish Government. Basically, she blew out a lot of the fluff off the case. Which is great.

In a nutshell, counsel believes there to be good grounds for appealing and that we should get on with it sharpish!

So upwards and onwards!

As always I shall update you when I know more - Hoping you are all safe and well.

All the best,

Martin