Alex Salmond is ready to go face to face together with his successors after he launched authorized motion over the Scottish Authorities’s dealing with of harassment complaints towards him.
The previous first minister and ex-SNP chief spoke out after the Court docket of Session confirmed that Mr Salmond’s case towards Scottish ministers has been referred to as.
The Alba Get together chief is alleging ”misfeasance” by civil servants and is in search of damages and lack of earnings.
In a livid assertion, Mr Salmond stated: ”The calling of the motion alerts that the day of reckoning for the Scottish Authorities’s document of misfeasance on this grand scale will inevitably come.”
Present First Minister Humza Yousaf responded that the Scottish Authorities will ”robustly” defend itself.
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, ex-chief of employees Liz Lloyd and former everlasting secretary Leslie Evans are named amongst these dealing with allegations of ”misfeasance”.
A spokesperson for Ms Sturgeon stated she ”completely refutes” Mr Salmond’s claims.
Mr Salmond, who led the Scottish authorities from 2007 to 2014, initially took the federal government to court docket in 2019 and was awarded £512,000 over its mishandling of harassment complaints towards him.
The investigation was judged to have ”tainted with obvious bias” and the Scottish Authorities conceded defeat.
Mr Salmond was additionally cleared of 13 costs of sexual misconduct – together with tried rape – in a separate prison trial in 2020.
Mr Salmond stated at the moment: ”Regardless of Lord Pentland’s findings within the Court docket of Session that the behaviour of the previous everlasting secretary and her officers was ’illegal’, ’unfair’ and ’tainted by obvious bias’, regardless of the continuing police and Crown Workplace inquiries into the prison leaks and potential perjury on the prison trial, regardless of the astonishing revelations of misfeasance contained within the eventual publication of the Authorities’s personal authorized recommendation, and regardless of the precise findings of the parliamentary inquiry into the conduct of the previous everlasting secretary and the previous first minister, not one single individual has been held accountable.
”With this court docket motion, that evasion of accountability ends.”
Mr Salmond’s lawyer, Gordon Dangerfield, stated the case accuses authorities officers of conducting themselves ”improperly, in unhealthy religion and past their powers, with the intention of injuring Mr Salmond”.
He stated: ”We aver that public officers determined at an early stage that Mr Salmond was to be discovered responsible of allegations towards him, whatever the precise details.
”As occasions snowballed, we aver that public officers then took half within the prison leaking of confidential paperwork, the concealment of paperwork in defiance of court docket orders and a prison warrant, the deceptive of the court docket throughout judicial evaluate proceedings, the soliciting of false prison complaints, and finally the fee of perjury at a parliamentary inquiry.
”All of this, we aver, was achieved for political causes, and particularly to injure Mr Salmond.” Mr Yousaf was requested in regards to the accusations throughout a press convention in Dublin on Friday.
He stated: ”Unsurprisingly to anybody listening or watching, the Scottish Authorities will defend its place robustly, however I am going to say no extra as a result of that is a stay case.”