Campaigners vowed to fight on after Scotland’s highest court rejected their concerns over the Scottish Government’s controversial Named Person scheme in early September.
In a written judgment, the Inner House of the Court of Session ruled that the legislation does not conflict with human rights or data protection laws. Responding to the judgment, Simon Calvert, spokesman for the campaign group No to Named Persons (NO2NP), said that they will be appealing.
Mr Calvert said: ‘We do not believe that the judges engaged properly with the arguments we put forward so we will take them to the Supreme Court. Ultimately we may even have to go to Europe. If the nature of the Named Person scheme was as the court described then we would not have brought this action in the first place. But the legislation gives a Named Person broad powers to interfere without parental consent.’
