HM ADVOCATE v WILLIAM MAXWELL LITTLE Accused (Minuter)

JurisdictionScotland
Neutral Citation1999 SCCR 625
Year1999
Date1999
CourtHigh Court of Justiciary
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5 cases
  • Dyer v Watson and Another; HM Advocate v K
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 29 January 2002
    ...of the 1995 Act, many challenges to the length of proceedings have been brought before the Scottish courts since HM Advocate v Little 1999 SCCR 625 in June 1999. This reflects a wider pattern. In 1992 more than half the cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights concerned alleged v......
  • Her Majesty's Advocate V. R.
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 10 October 2001
    ...in the form of a plea in bar of trial, based upon section 57(2) of the Scotland Act. The first case of this kind was HMA v Little, 1999 SCCR 625, which was decided by a single judge at a preliminary diet. That was a case, like the present case, in which there had been a long delay between t......
  • Crummock (Scotland) Ltd v HM Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 16 March 2000
    ...minute. The company appealed, with leave of the sheriff, to the High Court of Justiciary. Cases referred to: Advocate (HM) v LittleUNK 1999 SCCR 625 McCadden v HM AdvocateSC 1985 JC 98 McNab v HM AdvocateSC 2000 JC 80 Pullar v HM AdvocateSC 1993 JC 126 Pullar v United KingdomHRC (1996) 22 E......
  • HM Advocate v Robb
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 20 September 1999
    ...raise a devolution issue within the meaning of para 1 of sched 6 to the Scotland Act 1998. Cases referred to: Advocate (HM) v LittleUNK 1999 SCCR 625 Advocate (HM) v McCann and Sommerville 19 July 1999 (unreported) Advocate (HM) v Scottish Media Newspapers LtdUNK 1999 SCCR 599 Eckle v Germa......
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2 books & journal articles
  • The European Convention and the Independence of the Judiciary ‐ The Scottish Experience
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 63-3, May 2000
    • 1 May 2000
    ...1999 SCCR 599.7Her Majesty’s Advocate vDavid Shields Montgomery and another 2000 JC 111, HCJ at 117.8H M Advocate vWilliam Maxwell Little 1999 SCCR 625, per Lord Kingarth.9 Compare with the decision in Caroline McNab vHer Majesty’s Advocate 2000 JC 80, HCJ.10 Hugh Starrs and another vProcur......
  • Undue delay in criminal cases: The Scottish and South African courts’ response
    • South Africa
    • Juta Acta Juridica No. , August 2019
    • 15 August 2019
    ...but by looking broadly atall circumstances of each case.17Lord Justice Cullen’s view in McNab,13See McCartney v Tudhope 1985 SCCR 373.141999 SCCR 625.152000 SLT99.16Unreported decision by Lord Bonomy on 9 May 2000.17See Reilly (Elizabeth Liddle) v HMA 2000 SLT1330 at 1331Jto 1332Awhere Lord......

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