Scottish Conservative MSP Stephen Kerr claimed her failure to say this memo throughout her earlier look confirmed that her solutions had been “incomplete and therefore misleading to Parliament”.
Kerr continued: “The first minister was in possession of information that was not in the public domain.
“There was no motive for the primary minister to be given this data concerning a politically delicate court docket case”
Bain’s explanation was that when she was called to the chamber last week she had not “within the time out there earlier than answering the pressing query, seen the March 2025 doc”.
She added: “I had not seen the doc because it was despatched.”
The lord advocate continued to insist she had acted appropriately.
She said that she “doesn’t transient political events,” but does advise” constitutional workplace holders of data they require to pay attention to”.
