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Alex Salmond’s estate has been forced to seek the equivalent of bankruptcy over the costs of court action taken during the former first minister’s later life.

Mr Salmond successfully sued the Scottish Government , winning £512,000, after it was found the process in handling two harassment complaints against him by civil servants was “tainted with apparent bias”.

He later was acquitted of a raft of sexual misconduct charges at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Mr Salmond’s former lawyers at Levy and McRae are acting for his wife Moira in winding up his estate.

While it was

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