HMA v LIAM HAY 2020 Mr Hay who was convicted of murder, has had a successful appeal against sentence. Mr Hay was sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment element of 19 years. This was reduced by one year for the guilty plea. This has been reduced on appeal after [...]

Mr Sutherland has his appeal at the UK Supreme Court rejected. This case revolved around the legality of ‘paedophile hunter’ groups. In Mr Sutherland’s case an adult who was part of a paedophile hunter group sends him a message posing as a 13-year-old child. Mr Sutherland replied and was convicted of [...]

An appeal lodged by the Crown following the granting of an absolute discharge has been upheld. The Sheriff Appeal Court heard that Eleanor McTaggart, was found guilty of the theft of £207.86, being the value of fencing delivered to and erected at her home address. The theft was committed whilst [...]

Sean McLaughlin, 38 a convicted killer has plead guilty to the armed robbery of 2 convenience shops less than 2 months after being released early from prison. Mr McLaughlin who was under the influence of valium and alcohol stole a charity tin from one shop and threatened to murder the [...]

Weir McKay 45, who was convicted in 2019 of the culpable homicide of Karen Young and sentended to 14 years inprisonment has had his conviction quashed. The Criminal Appeal Court has ruled that the evidence before the jury in the original trial was not sufficient to allow them to find [...]

Frank Mayne, 56 has been sentenced to life inprisonment by the High Court in Edinburgh. Mr Mayne maintained his innocence to a catalague of offences against women and young girls but was found guilty of all 15 charges of rape, indecent assault, assault and indecent behaviour following the trial. One [...]

PF v Michael Saini 2017 Mr Saini has successfully appealed a decision to increase the financial penalty imposed on his after he pled guilty to a speeding offence at the earliest opportunity to do so. Mr Saini appealed to the High Court after the Sheriff Appeal Court increased his financial [...]

HMA v Jake Hawkins 2017 Mr Hawkins has successfully argued that his police interview should not be admissible in evidence in his rape trial at the High Court. This was because the interview which lasted almost one and a half hours, the judge agreed was ‘’prolonged’’ and amounted to “undue [...]

PF v Garry McNair 2015 Mr McNair failed in his appeal not to be placed on the Sex Offenders Register. Mr McNair pled guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court to the charge of public indecency after he had an oral sex act performed on him on a public bus. He was [...]

PF v DM 2015 DM, an accused, was refused by the Criminal Appeal Court to petition the recovery of a psychiatric report of his wife so that he could use this in his own defence. This report was prepared for a separate matter two years prior, but DM’s legal team [...]