💿#theMessages
"22 Jan 2020 at the preliminary hearing of the criminal case. We were presented with a #MemoryStick by @COPFS. The next day in the offices of @LevyandMcRae, we went through a series of messages. It was one of the most #extraordinary days of my life"
#SalmondSpeaks
🚨 #theConspiritors
"... because I'm not allowed to describe in any detail the #messages. Let's say I recognise the one you've just read out. And what they speak to behaviour which I would never have countenanced from people I've known in some cases for 30 years."
🔥"@MaureenSNP, you say the present Lord Advocate is the former Dean of the Faculty [of Advocates]; the [@ScotGov] external Counsel is the present Dean of the Faculty. I'd have thought it of interest to hear what @RoddyQC & Christine O'Neil were saying in Oct 2018. #SalmondSpeaks
📌"I don't think the Lord Advocate would have done very well if he'd been in the shoes of @RoddyQC and having to argue the case." .. "The Practitioner – the person who was actually having to argue the case in Court – probably recognised the essential difficulties"
"We went through each and every document and cross-compared with what had been disclosed in both the #CivilCase and the #CriminalCase. And we found a substantial number of documents that we had never seen before; which is spectacular."
#ScotlandSpeaks
"[A spectacular example] – but by no means the only e.g. – is a series of documents which demonstrated that the @PermSecScot met one complainant and telephoned the other on March 6, 2018; that was the day before I was informed there were any complaints against me." #SalmondSpeaks
Feb 28, 2021 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
🚨 "We indicated a willingness to [hand over documents to the committee], we then had correspondence from the @ScotGov who only would only agree [to us doing so] if we gave the documents to them [first] so they could – as they put it – 'make suitable redactions'."
#SalmondSpeaks
🤯#ProceduralUnfairness
"The Investigating Officer (IS) presents the case for the prosecution before the defendant is even informed about the procedure. Then the [accused], instead of being able to present their own case, has to give that case to the IS to present on his behalf."
"Mediation [was] available for current ministers, but not former ministers" .. "Mediation [was] missing .. for no understandable reason..."
#SalmondSpeaks
📰 "[#Arbitration] designed to provide a cheaper/ more private was of dealing with disputes."
"The idea that that wouldn't have been a better way to approach this matter – than what has transpired over the last 3 yrs – would be an extraordinary position to adopt"
"We would have expected to get a substantive reply" .. "Perhaps they were going to say, 'we're about to legislate for this anyway, or do something – remotely – legal"
–– @AlexSalmond
#SalmondSpeaks
The @scotgov refused arbitration; pressed ahead and cost the taxpayer £512,250 – the very highest level that could be awarded by the judge. The reason for that is the unprecedented lengths the Gov went to hide their evidence.
