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Legal challenge to Brexit can go ahead

SCOTLAND’S most senior judge ruled yesterday that a legal challenge to Brexit can go ahead in the Scottish courts.

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, said a previous decision to dismiss the case had “erred” in ruling that there was “no real prospect of success.”

The challenge has been brought by a range of MSPs and European legislators.

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