It has to be assumed that the Supreme Court is not soon going to change its own mind on the interpretation of s 28(7) of the Scotland Act 1998 and that, for the time being, some route to the amendment of the Act will 7 have to be sought . 5. It may be hoped that, at some early point, such a strategy for the future solution of the problem may be found not just for the sake of all future lawmaking in the Scottish and other devolved Parliaments but also, as Aileen McHarg (see note 7) and her co-authors have pointed out, for the sake of securing the validity of many existing Acts whose own validity may now be under question.