In terms of section 6(1)(a) of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976, the Sheriff found that Mr Gavin McCabe died at 17.20 hours on 21 March 2009, at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, as a consequence of injuries sustained when a motor vehicle driven by him was involved in a collision. The vehicle was driven by the deceased in the course of his employment as a taxi driver. The Sheriff found that Mr McCabe's death was the result of multiple injuries sustained by him as a res ...
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In terms of section 6(1) of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Death Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976, the Sheriff determined that William Casuga Antonio died at approximately 18:50 hours on 11 November 2009, in the North Sea approximately 5.5 miles off Macduff, Aberdeenshire. Mr Antonio died in the course of his employment as a deckhand, on the fishing vessel Osprey III. The cause of death was drowning. The Sheriff determined that Mr Antonio died after becoming entangled in fishing net as it ran from th ...
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Having heard evidence and productions led, the Sheriff concluded that Carrie Helen Anderson died on 23 February 2010 on the C410 Huntingtower to Crieff Road at its junction with C460 Gorthy to Auchterader Road, as a result of a road accident. The Sheriff concluded that the cause of death was (i) cranial injury; (ii) blunt force trauma; and finally (iii) vehicular collision through the deceased being an unrestrained driver, ejected from her vehicle. The Sheriff noted that the evidence led at the ...
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In terms of section 6(1) of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976, the Sheriff made a determination that Mr Bernard Graham died between about 11 pm on 9 November 2009 and 8:25 am on 10 November 2009, within Cell 8, Glenesk Hallm HMP Saughton, Edinburgh. Having reviewed the extensive investigations into Mr Graham’s death, the Sheriff concluded that he died of natural causes, his right coronary artery (which was affected by severe atherosclerosis) being comple ...
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The Sheriff found in terms of section 6(1) of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Death Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976, that Mr Thomas James Strain died between 13:00 and about 16:30 hours on 23 November 2008 at HMP Bowhouse, Kilmarnock. The Sheriff determined that the cause of death was hanging. Having heard evidence and submissions, the Sheriff noted that there were no reasonable precautions whereby the deceased’s death might have been avoided, nor where there are any system defects which cont ...
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Fatal Accident Inquiry:- Having heard evidence and submissions, the Sheriff made a determination under the terms of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Death Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976, which contained no recommendations. The Sheriff found that in terms of section 6(1)(a) of the 1976 Act, that Mr Francis Goodwin, died at 0500 on 27 July 2005 at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, as a result of road traffic accident, which occurred at around 0420 on the same date. The cause of death was a chest injury susta ...
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In his written determination following a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of a man in an Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit, the Sheriff set out the purpose of the inquiry, as well as its limitations. He explained that its primary purpose is to air in public the circumstances of the death in order to explain its cause or causes. It also allows an inquiry into, first, whether any reasonable steps could or should have been taken whereby the death would or could have been avoided, and, secondly, ...
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In this petition for judicial review the petitioner sought to challenge the decision of the Lord Advocate, dated 8 May 2008, refusing a request that a fatal accident inquiry be held into the circumstances surrounding the death of the petitioner's daughter. On 19 December 1995 Richard Karling was found guilty of the murder of the petitioner's daughter on 27 June 1995. He subsequently lodged an appeal against his conviction and at the appeal hearing further evidence was led. A key aspect of the Cr ...
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On 5 February 2008 an Opinion was issued and the Court pronounced interlocutors in the two petitions, which reduced the decision of the first respondent in refusing to order a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the deaths of Mrs. Eileen O'Hara and the Reverend David Charles Black. At that time the court ordered that a further hearing be arranged in each petition for the discussion of further procedure. After 5 February 2008, the Court was advised that the respondents did not intend to reclaim against t ...
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Following an FAI, Sheriff Mitchell determined that Thomas Bolesworth died on 6 January 2006 in Glasgow Royal Infirmary and that the accident which resulted in his death took place on 30 December 2005 in the meat preparation room of a butcher's premises in Duke Street, Glasgow. The circumstances of the accident were not fully established, but the Sheriff determined that, while working in the course of his employment as a butcher alone in the meat preparation room, Mr Bolesworth had removed the li ...
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