Need to have a full look over my notes/re-watch parts of the hearing, but my initial thoughts on the appeal are this. The SG's chance of winning are higher than I initially thought, but I still remain hopeful. Legal communications are to remain confidential, this is a long establish principle dating back centuries and common law. However, FOISA enables publication of such communications, which goes against this principle of confidentiality. Given that the judges are of course legal figured themselves, they will very much appreicate this.

🚨The court date for the Scottish Government's appeal against the SIC (and myself as an interested party) regarding decision notice 065/2025 has been set for January 29th 2026 at the court of session (). This is about WhatsApps (or lack of) and otherfoi.scot/decision-06520… communications during the time from when the SIC published his decision notice () in the original case about whether the SG held the Hamilton written evidence to the day after the court of session hearing when the SG were comprehensively defeated. This casefoi.scot/decision-00420…