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Petition Of William Beggs For Judicial Review

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JurisdictionScotland
JudgeLord Tyre
Date14 July 2020
CourtCourt of Session
Published date14 July 2020
OUTER HOUSE, COURT OF SESSION
2020 CSOH 71
P1259/18
OPINION OF LORD TYRE
in the petition of
WILLIAM FREDERICK IAN BEGGS
for
Judicial review of a decision of the Scottish Legal Aid Board dated 19 September 2018 to
refuse an application made by him for legal aid to appeal to the Supreme Court
Petitioner
Petitioner: Dean of Faculty, Crabb; Drummond Miller LLP
First Respondent: Crawford QC; Scottish Legal Aid Board Legal Services De partment
Second Respondent: Welsh; Anderson Strathern LLP
14 July 2020
Introduction
[1] The petitioner was convicted of murder in 2001 and is serving a sentence of life
imprisonment. He has maintained and continues to maintain that he did not commit the
offence of which he was convicted. He has submitted freedom of information (“FOI”)
requests to Strathclyde Police and, subsequently, Police Scotland for information that he
believes would support his claim that a miscarriage of justice occurred. Those requests have
been refused by the police on the ground that the material requested was exempt from
disclosure. In 2011 the petitioner applied to the second respondent (“the Commissioner”)

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