THE former first minister Alex Salmond is taking legal action against the Scottish Government over its investigation into sexual misconduct claims made against him in 2018.
It is believed the Alba Party leader has lodged a petition at the Court of Session accusing various past and present civil servants of “misfeasance” and is seeking damages of up to £3 million.
It comes after an investigation into allegations made by two women about Salmond’s behaviour was found to be have been unlawful and “tainted by apparent bias” following a judicial review.
In 2019, Salmond took the Scottish Government to court over its mishandling of complaints against him and was awarded more than £500,000 in damages.
He was also cleared of 14 counts of sexual assault at a separate criminal trial in 2020.
A statement from Salmond is expected later on Friday.
Following the criminal trial Salmond gave evidence at a special Holyrood committee set up to probe the government’s mishandling of the case.
During his appearance at the committee Salmond accused a group of people close to his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, of plotting against him.
He added that he believed Sturgeon – who was first minister at the time – broke the ministerial code by misleading parliament over conversations she had during the investigation.
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “It would not be appropriate to comment on live litigation.”
Taking the absolute piss
Show of hands, who actually likes McJabba?
I do wish he would just fuck off.
Why can’t he be like other former leaders and fade into the nether once their are no longer in power.
Everybody else has done that, except the last decade of tory leaders.
I actually have no idea if he’s right to do this or not.
It felt at the time that the government thought he was guilty and did all they could to ensure he was found guilty and failed and got caught.
On the other hand I don’t think there’s any doubt he’s a bit of a sleazy creep, handsy etc and maybe he should just consider himself as lucky
The Scottish government money is our money!
It’s almost like the SNP’s history of obfuscation, anti transparency, clumsy cover-ups, manipulation and dirty dealings is coming back to bite them in the ass. Oh no.
Also, shut up, Alex, big blooter that you are.
He’s lucky he got away from the can with a “he said/she said” not proven type of stuff, but civil servants did make a mess of the whole process long before that. So he should fuck off into the sea, and take said civil servants with him, and we save a lot of tax money in the process. Win/win.
Really unsurprising to anyone who witnessed the SNPs performative memory lapses during the enquiry.
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THE former first minister Alex Salmond is taking legal action against the Scottish Government over its investigation into sexual misconduct claims made against him in 2018.
It is believed the Alba Party leader has lodged a petition at the Court of Session accusing various past and present civil servants of “misfeasance” and is seeking damages of up to £3 million.
It comes after an investigation into allegations made by two women about Salmond’s behaviour was found to be have been unlawful and “tainted by apparent bias” following a judicial review.
In 2019, Salmond took the Scottish Government to court over its mishandling of complaints against him and was awarded more than £500,000 in damages.
He was also cleared of 14 counts of sexual assault at a separate criminal trial in 2020.
A statement from Salmond is expected later on Friday.
Following the criminal trial Salmond gave evidence at a special Holyrood committee set up to probe the government’s mishandling of the case.
During his appearance at the committee Salmond accused a group of people close to his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, of plotting against him.
He added that he believed Sturgeon – who was first minister at the time – broke the ministerial code by misleading parliament over conversations she had during the investigation.
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “It would not be appropriate to comment on live litigation.”
Taking the absolute piss
Show of hands, who actually likes McJabba?
I do wish he would just fuck off.
Why can’t he be like other former leaders and fade into the nether once their are no longer in power.
Everybody else has done that, except the last decade of tory leaders.
I actually have no idea if he’s right to do this or not.
It felt at the time that the government thought he was guilty and did all they could to ensure he was found guilty and failed and got caught.
On the other hand I don’t think there’s any doubt he’s a bit of a sleazy creep, handsy etc and maybe he should just consider himself as lucky
The Scottish government money is our money!
It’s almost like the SNP’s history of obfuscation, anti transparency, clumsy cover-ups, manipulation and dirty dealings is coming back to bite them in the ass. Oh no.
Also, shut up, Alex, big blooter that you are.
He’s lucky he got away from the can with a “he said/she said” not proven type of stuff, but civil servants did make a mess of the whole process long before that. So he should fuck off into the sea, and take said civil servants with him, and we save a lot of tax money in the process. Win/win.
Really unsurprising to anyone who witnessed the SNPs performative memory lapses during the enquiry.