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'Has the UK Supreme Court stopped Scottish Independence?': Alison Young

'Has the UK Supreme Court stopped Scottish Independence?': Alison Young

Update: 2022-11-29

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On the 23rd November the UK Supreme court decided that the Scottish Parliament did not have the power to enact legislation to hold a second independence referendum in Scotland.

In this short video Professor Alison Young explains the backdrop to the case, sets out how the Supreme court decided the case, and explores possible future paths to Scottish independence.

Alison Young is the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. She teaches constitutional law on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge and is the author of Turpin and Tomkins’ British Government and the Constitution (8th Edition).

For more information about Professor Young, please refer to her profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/al-young/77940

Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty.

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'Has the UK Supreme Court stopped Scottish Independence?': Alison Young

'Has the UK Supreme Court stopped Scottish Independence?': Alison Young

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