Hartley v HM Advocate

JurisdictionScotland
Date1979
Year1979
CourtHigh Court of Justiciary
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11 cases
  • Peter Cadder Appellant
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 26 October 2010
    ...him and uncertainties about the extent to which statements made by a suspect in answer to police questioning were admissible: see Hartley v HM Advocate 1979 SLT 26. Lord Cameron described this as an extremely difficult and delicate topic on which the police lacked adequate guidance: Scotti......
  • Peter Cadder Appellant
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 26 October 2010
    ...him and uncertainties about the extent to which statements made by a suspect in answer to police questioning were admissible: see Hartley v HM Advocate 1979 SLT 26. Lord Cameron described this as an extremely difficult and delicate topic on which the police lacked adequate guidance: Scotti......
  • Elphinstone v Procurator Fiscal
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 27 March 2012
    ...referred to: Cuthbert v HingstonUNK 1993 SCCR 87 Fox v HM AdvocateSCUNK 1998 JC 94; 1998 SLT 335; 1998 SCCR 115 Hartley v HM AdvocateUNK 1979 SLT 26; [1981] Crim LR 782 Mackie v HM AdvocateSCUNK 1994 JC 132; 1995 SLT 110; 1994 SCCR 277 Sinclair v ClarkSCUNK 1962 JC 57; 1962 SLT 307; [1962] ......
  • Her Majesty's Advocate V. Darren J. Jenkinson
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 5 September 2001
    ...1926 J.C.83; HMA v Rigg 1946 J.C.1; Chalmers v HMA 1954 J.C.66; Brown v HMA 1966 S.L.T.105; HMA v Friel 1978 S.L.T.21; Hartley v HMA 1979 S.L.T.26; HMA v Mair 1982 S.L.T.471; Lord Advocate's Reference No.1 of 1983; 1984 S.L.T.337; McClory v MacInnes 1992 S.C.C.R.319; Carmichael v Boyd 1994 ......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Indexes
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 18-4, October 2014
    • 1 October 2014
    .... . . . . . . 247Hamdi vRumsfeld, 542 US507 (2004). . . . . . . 249Hamilton vNormand 1994 SLT184. . . . . . . . . . 26Hartley vHM Advocate 1979SLT 26. . . . . . . . . . 22Heaney vIreland [1996] 1IR 589 . . . . . . . . . . . 126Heaney and McGuinness v Ireland [1994] 3 IR593, [1996]1 IR 580. ......
  • The Right to Legal Assistance During Detention
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , September 2011
    • 1 September 2011
    ...83 per Lord Rodger. Admissions made in these circumstances were admissible provided they were fairly obtained.3232Hartley v HM Advocate 1979 SLT 26 at 28 per Lord It was against this background that the Thomson Committee was established, the remit of which was to examine the law on pre-tria......
  • Corroboration in Scots Law: “Archaic Rule” or “Invaluable Safeguard”?
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2013
    • 1 May 2013
    ...of which they are innocent.128128A view adopted by the courts: e.g. McCutcheon v HM Advocate 2002 SLT 27 at para 6; Hartley v HM Advocate 1979 SLT 26 at 32. Cf also the rule that very little evidence is required to corroborate an unequivocal confession: n 56 above. Yet, as we have seen,1291......
  • Chalmers to Cadder: Full Circle on Police Interrogation?
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2015
    • 1 May 2015
    ...than excluding statements made to the police”. Another commentator observed that the well-known 1979 case of Hartley1818Hartley v HMA 1979 SLT 26. and “the cases leading up to it are a far cry from the jealous guarding of the suspect against self-incriminating in Chalmers and its forbears”.......

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