Appeal against Conviction in UK Law
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The Legal History of the Lockerbie Aircraft Bombing Case and a Reference for Another Appeal
The only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbie bombing case in 1988 had an appeal against conviction refused. A subsequent referral of the case back for furth...... ... ShielsSolicitor in Scotland, UKAbstractThe only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbiebombing case in 1988 had an appeal against conviction refused. A subsequent referral of thecase back for further consideration ... ...
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The Lockerbie Aircraft Bombing Case and the Final Appeal
The only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbie bombing case in 1988 had an appeal against conviction refused. A subsequent referral of the case back for furth...... ... ShielsSolicitor in Scotland, UKAbstractThe only person against whom a charge of murder was proved in regard to the Lockerbiebombing case in 1988 had an appeal against conviction refused. A subsequent referral of thecase back for further consideration ... ...
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Couldn’t Tell You Even If I Wanted To? Anonymity of Journalists’ Sources, Voluntary Disclosure and Abuse of Process
In October 2016, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Norman, an appeal against conviction for misconduct in public office on the basis of information sold to a newspaper by a serving prison...... ... QC)AbstractIn October 2016, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Norman, an appeal conviction for misconduct in public office on the basis of ... was eventually taken to offer no evidence against Mr Moyes.Mr Norman contended that he had divulged ... ...
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When Should a Retrial be Permitted After a Conviction is Quashed on Appeal?
The power to permit a retrial after a conviction has been quashed on appeal is an established part of criminal procedure, with over a third of successful appeals against conviction in England and W...... ... retrial after a conviction has been quashed on appeal is an established part of criminal procedure, with over a third of successful appeals against conviction in England and Wales now resulting in a retrial being ordered. Despite this, relatively little attention has been paid to the ... ...
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High Court of Justiciary
... ... the sentence was excessive.The note of appeal narrated the relative lack of violence on ... duties.'On 12 October1993the appeal against sentence was heard and refused:1993SCCR1044.Itwas ... in s 2Aapplied to it.An appeal against conviction to the High Court of Justiciary proceededon the ... ...
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Ear-Print Evidence
...JCL 72(6) document..Court of Appeal ... Page488 ... Court of Appeal ... Ear-print ... HELD, ALLOWING THE APPEAL against conviction on the first count of ... burglary and ... ...
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Guilt and Innocence in the Criminal Justice System: A Comment on R (Mullen) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
The House of Lords upheld the Secretary of State's right to deny compensation under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the ex gratia scheme to Mullen, whose conviction for conspiracy ...... ... ex gratia scheme to Mullen, whose conviction for con- spiracy to cause explosions had been ... in the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal in terms of their implications for the ... weakness of this legal principle when set against other policies, such as the detection of crime,s ... ...
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Body Modification: A Case of Modern Maiming?
... ... 18, Offences Against the Person Act 1861) along with three alternative ... ), and he gave the Appellant permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal under s. 35(1) (at [2]).In ... interlocutory appeal ratherthan a conviction followed by anappeal in the ordinaryway (at [5]) ... ...
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Non-attendance at a Crown Court Appeal and Procedural Unfairness
... ... at Cambridge[2023] EWHC 466 (Admin)KeywordsCrown Court, appeal against conviction, absence of appellant, litigant in person, dismissal ofappeal, ... ...
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R v Savage, DPP v Parmenter and the Law of Assault
... ... a handful of cases,55 the Court of Appeal in Parmenter plainly disapproved of the ... in order in relation to offences against the person. Perhaps herein lies its one ... conviction if it concluded that ‘while deliberately ... ...
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