George Archibald Clark v HM Advocate

JurisdictionScotland
Neutral Citation1997 SCCR 416
Year1997
Date1997
CourtUnspecified Court (Scotland)
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  • Referral By The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission In The Case Of Yusuf Ansari (formerly Known As George Archibald Clark) V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 2 May 2003
    ...of the rape were perverted and humiliating. They are set out in detail in the judgment of the appeal court (cf. Clark v HM Adv, 1997 SCCR 416, at p. 418). In the plea in mitigation, counsel said that the applicant had indulged in acts of fantasy in his own sex life, in which he acted out sa......
  • Ansari v HM Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 2 May 2003
    ...sec 194B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. Cases referred to: Anderson v HM AdvocateUNK 1998 SCCR 196 Clark v HM AdvocateUNK 1997 SCCR 416 Cronin v HM AdvocateUNK 1993 SCCR 158 Elliott v HM Advocate (No 2) 1997 SLT 1229 Hussain v United KingdomHRC (1996) 22 EHRR 1 McPhee v HM A......
  • John Locke V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 1 February 2008
    ...guilty plea), which was irrelevant in the appellant's case. The approach to sentencing adopted by the appeal court in Clark v HM Advocate 1997 SCCR 416 (decided on 25 April 1997) had, on the basis of the then current legislation, been correct. The disapproval of Clark in Ansari had proceede......

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