Application for leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council:- On 29 January 2003 the appellant was convicted after trial on charges of inter alia murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 25 years. The appellant appealed against conviction on a number of grounds. On 13 November 2007 at a hearing of the appeal senior counsel for the appellant moved the court to allow the late reception of inter alia a devolution issue minute. The Crown opposed the late ...
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Petition to the Nobile Officium:- On 22 March 2004 the petitioner was convicted of a number of offences and appealed against conviction. On 26 and 27 August 2008 the appeal was argued when the petitioner was initially represented by senior and junior counsel, however, during the course of the appeal the appellant became dissatisfied with the manner of his representation and counsel sought leave to withdraw from acting. Leave to withdraw was granted and thereafter the petitioner represented himse ...
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Petition to the Nobile Officium:- On 4 September 2007 a sheriff at Edinburgh Sheriff Court held that the petitioners were in contempt of court after they published a photograph in the Daily Record on 15 May 2007 of a footballer Derek Riordan during the currency of a summary trial. The sheriff fined them £1750. Here the petitioners sought review of that finding of contempt. Riordan, together with his co-accused, appeared at trial on summary complaint on two charges of assault and a charge of ...
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In February 2006 a solicitor called Manmohan Sandhu appeared before the Antrim Magistrates’ Court charged with incitement to murder, and four counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice. The court was told that the case against Mr Sandhu was based on covert electronic surveillance carried out by the police of conversations between himself and clients who were purporting to consult him in the serious crime suite at Antrim Police Station. The fact that the case ...
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The HL held that covert surveillance of communications between lawyers and clients under RIPA 2000 was permissible even if those matters were covered by legal professional privilege
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Devolution Issue - Leave to Appeal to the Privy Council:- On 9 September 2004 at the High Court at Glasgow the appellant was convicted of four contraventions of section 4(3)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 following trial. The appellant subsequently appealed by way of Note of Appeal under section 109(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. On 7 November 2008 the appellant's appeal against conviction was refused. By a letter to the Justiciary Office, dated 19 December 2008, solicitor ...
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Criminal Appeal Against Conviction:- On 31 August 2006 at Edinburgh High Court the appellant was found guilty after trial of the following charge:- "On 3 April 2006 at the premises known as Co-op Superstore, 219 Wallacewell Road, Glasgow, you did assault ...customers there and did present a firearm, namely a shot gun or similar instrument at them, place them in a state of fear and alarm, discharge said shot gun or similar instrument, repeatedly demand that tills be opened and repeatedly demand t ...
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Criminal Appeal Against Conviction:- In March 2006 the appellant went to trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court on an indictment containing a charge of inter alia assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of life. At the end of the Crown case the procurator fiscal depute advised the court that the Crown was only proceeding in respect of the assault charge. A no case to answer submission was made by the agent for the appellant in which it was submitted there was insufficient evi ...
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These two appeals raise issues relating to the interpretation of s.58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. R v. G G faces two counts of terrorism – (1) under s.5(1) of the Terrorism Act 2006 for preparing to commit acts of terrorism; (2) under s.58 of the 2000 Act for collecting information of a kind that was likely to be useful to a terrorist. The explanation which G gave for collecting and recording the information (whilst he was custody for another matter) was that he wanted to “win ...
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The matters to be proved for a finding of guilty under section 57 and 58 of Terrorism Act 2000.
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