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Appeal Against Rape Convictions 8 Years Apart Refused

Duthie v HMA [2021] HCJAC 23 The Appellant was convicted of 29 charges spanning 15 years. Of these, two charges were that of rape of former partners of the accused, which were libelled to have occurred between 2008 and 2011. The Appellant appealed his conviction on the ground that the [...]

2021-04-21T06:38:16+01:0021 April 2021|

Appeal By Stated Case Refused

Wishart v Procurator Fiscal, Kirkcaldy 2021 SAC (Crim) 1 The appellant was convicted at the Justice of Peace Court at Kirkcaldy of driving a vehicle which had been involved in an accident causing damage to another vehicle on a road, failing to stop and give the necessary information and failing [...]

2021-03-04T07:55:52+00:004 March 2021|

Appeal On Judge’s Charge Refused

AA v HMA [2021] HCJAC 9 The appellant was convicted after trial of two charges of sexual assault contrary to section 3 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009. The first charge related to an event on the 11th of August 2018 in respect of complainer A that whilst she was [...]

2021-03-04T07:53:02+00:004 March 2021|

Appeal Against Being Placed on the Children’s List Lost

David Alexander v The Scottish Ministers [2021] SC LOCH 7 Mr Alexander had been convicted on the 11th of October 2018 of three sexual offences which he committed whilst he was in secondary school against girls of a similar age to him which were in the following terms: “On various occasions [...]

2021-02-25T06:20:15+00:0025 February 2021|

Crown Appeal Against Sentence Refused

HMA v Shaun Gatti [2021] HCJAC 7 Mr Gatti, the respondent, had pled guilty to charge 1 which was causing death by dangerous driving in that he drove at excessive speeds within a 30mph limit, and on the wrong side of the road, having consumed alcohol, whereby his vehicle collided [...]

2021-02-17T07:46:59+00:0017 February 2021|
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