Salmond injunction call is two-faced

If Alex Salmond believes that injunctions are "impractical" and "untenable" then he should apologise for the taxpayer funded lawsuits designed to stop voters learning the real details of the SNP's Local Income Tax.

David McLetchie MSP, Scottish Conservative Chief Whip, said:

"Alex Salmond has today branded injunctions and their pursuit in the English courts as 'impractical' and 'untenable'. He now seems to accept that it is pointless spending vast amounts of money keeping secret matters which are already in the public domain. Accordingly, I trust he will apologise for his taxpayer funded lawsuits in the Scottish courts which attempted to keep hidden the details of his ill-fated local income tax plans.

"He spent public money in his fight against the public interest, timed to deny voters information during an election campaign. Surely he was the person who was being 'impractical' and whose actions were 'untenable'. Not for the first time Mr. Salmond is being two faced."

Please see extract below, from here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13498504

And Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said injunctions were becoming "impractical" and England's courts were out of step.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In the modern age, with the internet, is it tenable to pursue these sort of injunctions? I'd have thought there was an increasing view that it was untenable to do so.

"There's a whole question of what's of interest to the public and what's in the public interest, which is often two different things.

"The law essentially is a practical thing. It looks to me like the English law, English injunctions, look increasingly impractical in the modern world."

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