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When will we have justice for spycop victims in Scotland?
The SNP has refused to listen to calls for an inquiry into political policing, says NEIL FINDLAY
We now know that 18 undercover police officers posed as protesters during the 2005 protests against the G8 meeting in Gleneagles

THIS week has been a bad week for justice in Scotland.

Tilly Gifford, an environmental campaigner who was spied upon, followed and approached to be recruited to report on fellow social justice activists, had her case for judicial review of the Scottish and Westminster governments’ failure to allow Scottish victims access to a public inquiry rejected by the Court of Session.

Her lawyers argued that the decisions by both the Westminster and Scottish governments breached her human rights and were unlawful.

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