Alex Salmond warns Humza Yousaf’s ‘day of reckoning’ is coming in new risk

Alex Salmond is ready to go face to face together with his successors after he launched authorized motion over the Scottish Government’s dealing with of harassment complaints in opposition to him.

The former first minister and ex-SNP chief spoke out after the Court of Session confirmed that Mr Salmond’s case in opposition to Scottish ministers has been known as.

The Alba Party chief is alleging “misfeasance” by civil servants and is looking for damages and lack of earnings.

In a livid assertion, Mr Salmond mentioned: “The calling of the action signals that the day of reckoning for the Scottish Government’s record of misfeasance on this grand scale will inevitably come.”

Current First Minister Humza Yousaf responded that the Scottish Government 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 going through allegations of “misfeasance”.

A spokesperson for Ms Sturgeon mentioned she “utterly 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 in opposition to him.

The investigation was judged to have “tainted with apparent bias” and the Scottish Government conceded defeat.

Mr Salmond was additionally cleared of 13 fees of sexual misconduct – together with tried rape – in a separate legal trial in 2020.

Mr Salmond mentioned in the present day: “Despite Lord Pentland’s findings in the Court of Session that the behaviour of the former permanent secretary and her officials was ‘unlawful’, ‘unfair’ and ‘tainted by apparent bias’, despite the ongoing police and Crown Office inquiries into the criminal leaks and potential perjury at the criminal trial, despite the astonishing revelations of misfeasance contained in the eventual publication of the Government’s own legal advice, and despite the specific findings of the parliamentary inquiry into the conduct of the former permanent secretary and the former first minister, not one single person has been held accountable.

“With this court docket motion, that evasion of duty ends.”

Mr Salmond’s lawyer, Gordon Dangerfield, said the case accuses government officials of conducting themselves “improperly, in unhealthy religion and past their powers, with the intention of injuring Mr Salmond”.

He said: “We aver that public officers determined at an early stage that Mr Salmond was to be discovered responsible of allegations in opposition to him, whatever the precise info.

“As events snowballed, we aver that public officials then took part in the criminal leaking of confidential documents, the concealment of documents in defiance of court orders and a criminal warrant, the misleading of the court during judicial review proceedings, the soliciting of false criminal complaints, and ultimately the commission of perjury at a parliamentary inquiry.

“All of this, we aver, was completed for political causes, and particularly to injure Mr Salmond.” Mr Yousaf was asked about the accusations during a press conference in Dublin on Friday.

He said: “Unsurprisingly to anybody listening or watching, the Scottish Government will defend its place robustly, however I’ll say no extra as a result of that is a stay case.”