MacCormick v Lord Advocate 1953 SC 396,

• Key legal issues
• Reasoning of the Court (particularly of the Lord President) (including the ratio decidendi if you can identify

• Important obiter dicta (statements made in passing not forming part of the ratio decidendi) and observations made by the judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session

Could you help with some important facts on each of these issues?

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