{"id":65994,"date":"2018-11-06T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/06\/alex-salmond-not-adequately-informed-of-sex-harassment-claims-court-told\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:42:00","slug":"alex-salmond-not-adequately-informed-of-sex-harassment-claims-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=65994","title":{"rendered":"Alex Salmond &#039;not adequately informed&#039; of sex harassment claims, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-first minister is challenging the Scottish government over its handling of allegationsAlex Salmond was not given sufficient information about two sexual harassment allegations made against him, according to lawyers acting for the former first minister in the first court hearing of his legal challenge against the Scottish government.At a procedural hearing at the court of session in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Judge Lord Pentland said lawyers for the Scottish government would attack the relevance of Salmond\u2019s case, arguing that he had been given \u201cthe gist\u201d of the complaints against him. Ronnie Clancy QC, representing Salmond, said more information should have been provided and questioned the procedure under which the complaints were investigated. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/nov\/06\/alex-salmond-not-adequately-informed-of-sex-harassment-claims-court-told\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Salmond &#039;not adequately informed&#039; of sex harassment claims, court told<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-first minister is challenging the Scottish government over its handling of allegationsAlex Salmond was not given sufficient information about two sexual harassment allegations made against him, according to lawyers acting for the former first minister in the first court hearing of his legal challenge against the Scottish government.At a procedural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}