Fatal Accidents

This inquiry was held in terms of section 1(1)(a)(ii) of the ......

Robert Watson aged 59 years, died on 24 August 2005 at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow following an accident on 21 August 2005 at North Bardowie Farm, Baldarnock whilst he was working as a self employed farmer. The deceased whilst either mounting or dismounting a tractor fell. He suffered a fracture t......

On 8 April 2006 Barry John Tierney (45), a prisoner at H M Prison, Castle Huntly, died at 6 Dunvegan Court, Glenrothes, Fife whilst on weekend release, after snorting morphine. ......

In terms of section 6(1)(a) of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976, the sheriff found that Danielle Welsh died on 24th June 2008 at 10.25am at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In terms of section 6(1)(b), the cause of death was Liver failure due to paracetamol toxicit......

Adrian John Fleurs (40) was a prisoner being held in legal custody and serving a sentence of imprisonment at HM Prison Peterhead when he died in his cell at on 20th March 2006. The cause of his death was Coronary Artery Disease. ......

FAI in relation to the death of a 62 year old woman following her admission to Ward One of Monklands District General Hospital in January 2004. Mrs Pullar died following a "presumed insulin excess " which resulted from her receiving ten times the intended ......

Between 5 pm on Sunday 14th November 2004 and 8 am on Monday 15th November 2004 whilst alone within cell 5, segregation unit, HM Prison, Shotts the deceased hanged himself by a bed sheet suspended from a metal frame on the outside of the window there. This inquiry was held in terms of Section 1(i)(......

On 10 August 2005, Duncan Rowan MacLarty (71) in the course of his self employment as a farmer at Crasky Farm, Duncanston died when he fell through a perspex roof light in the roof of a barn and struck the concrete floor three meters below. The cause of death was a major head injury which he sustai......

On 10 August 2005, Duncan Rowan MacLarty (71) in the course of his self employment as a farmer at Crasky Farm, Duncanston died when he fell through a perspex roof light in the roof of a barn and struck the concrete floor three meters below. The cause of death was a major head injury which he sustai......

Mrs Janet Allen, aged 96 years, resided at 6 Westfield Drive, Greenock, died in the Larkfield Unit at Inverclyde Royal Hospit ......

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 ......

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......