Creighton v HM Advocate

JurisdictionScotland
Date1904
Year1904
CourtHigh Court of Justiciary
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3 cases
  • Neil Ferguson Mcneil V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 19 October 2005
    ...authority directly in point. The trial judge had been referred to H.M. Advocate v Philp (1890) 2 White 525, Creighton v H.M. Advocate (1904) 4 Adam 356 and H.M. Advocate v Roose 1999 S.C.C.R. 259; the last supported the proposition that it was illegitimate to seek to circumvent a statutory ......
  • McNeil v HM Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 19 October 2005
    ...(HM) v RooseUNK 1999 SCCR 259 Advocate's (Lord) Reference (No 1 of 2001), ReUNK 2002 SLT 466; 2002 SCCR 435 Creighton v HM Advocate (1904) 4 Adam 356; (1904) 12 SLT 36 P v HM AdvocateSCUNK [2005] HCJAC 41; 2006 JC 23; 2005 SLT 651; 2005 SCCR 367 R v Cotton (1896) 60 JP 824 R v JUNKELRWLRUNK......
  • John Gerard Kearney V. Procurator Fiscal Greenock
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 13 December 2006
    ...evidence, the prosecution must fail. [14] In relation to those submissions Mr Shead referred us to two cases, namely Creighton v. HMA (1904) 4 Adam 356, and Andrew v. HMA 1982 SCCR 539. In Creighton the appellant had been charged with having had unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under......

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