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 [...]

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 [...]

Faryad Darbazi v HMA [2021] HCJAC 10 On the 14th of February 2020, Mr Darbazi was found guilty of a charge which read: “on 17 December 2018 at Caspian Kebabs Takeaway Restaurant, …Glasgow, you… did sexually penetrate the vagina of [OS]… and did place your arms around her body, manoeuvre her [...]

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 [...]

HMA v Stephen Jones [2021] HCJAC 8 Mr Jones, the respondent, pled guilty by way of s76 letter to a combined charge of causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving on the B792 south of a farm access road on the 8th of January 2019. Mr Jones had been driving [...]

Kevin McGrouther v HMA [2021] HCJAC 5 Mr McGrouther was convicted on the 21st of February 2020 at the High Court in Glasgow of the following charge: “On 18 September 2018 at 261 Cedar Road, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire you did assault Allan Kemp, care of police service of Scotland, Whittington Street, [...]

The Representative Of The Late Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Megrahi v Her Majesty’s Advocate & The Advocate General The Representative Of The Late Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Megrahi v Her Majesty’s Advocate & The Advocate General [2020] HCJAC 54 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who died in 2012, was the only person to have been [...]

David Ditchburn v HMA [2020] HCJAC 55 Following trial at Edinburgh High Court on the 15th of May 2019, Mr Ditchburn was found guilty of four charges which included the following charge: “On 9 or 10 August 2018 at Flat 2, 12 Brunswick Road, Edinburgh you DAVID CAMERON DITCHBURN did assault [...]

Colin Grimason v HMA [2020] HCJAC 53 On the 18th of June the appellant was convicted of a charge of sexual assault on a 25 year old school teacher which read: “On 28 May 2017 at an alleyway near to Munches Street and High Street, both Dumfries, you did sexually assault [...]

LW v HMA [2020] HCJAC 50 The appellant, LW, had been found guilty of rape of his stepdaughter and of incest under s2B of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 1976 on the 31st of October 2019. The appellant sought to appeal his conviction for rape. The appellant did not seek to [...]