Yesterday, the legal bid was submitted to the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
However, it's not the only case against Carmichael. Way down under, in Australia, a legal challenge against Carmichael was launched at the end of March, just one day after the dissolution of the UK parliament and one day before Carmichael leaked the Frenchgate memo to the Telegraph.
Did the Australians know something before us?
Sadly not. Their case is not against Alistair Carmichael but against the proposed $16.5bn Carmichael Mine. This would be Australia's largest mine. It is sited in Queensland, the north-eastern segment of Australia, within a coal-rich area called the Galilee Basin. Adani, an Indian company, owns the mine and it is expected to begin exporting coal to India in 3 years time.
Objections against it include climate change risks to the Great Barrier Reef, danger to the Great Barrie Reef by the extra 450 ships needed to take the coal, the risks to million-year-old underground springs and the impact upon native aboriginal ancestral lands.
It is interesting to note that both Scotland and Australia have a nasty big blimp on their northern landscape requiring a legal challenge to sort out.
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