Samuel Paul Ralston Appellant Against HM Advocate
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Neutral Citation | 1987 SCCR 467 |
| Date | 1987 |
| Year | 1987 |
| Court | Unspecified Court (Scotland) |
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10 cases
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Donna Murphy V. Her Majesty's Advocate
...1994 SLT 480 Casey v HM Advocate 1994 SLT 54 Gracie v AllanUNK 1987 SCCR 364 Nelson v HM Advocate 1989 SLT 215 Ralston v HM AdvocateUNK 1987 SCCR 467 The cause called before the High Court of Justiciary, comprising the Lord Justice-Clerk (Ross), Lord Murray and Lord Morison. At advising, on......
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William Beck V. Her Majesty's Advocate
...trial judge on the need to accept the evidence of the two positive witnesses had been in favour of the appellant (Ralston v HM Advocate 1987 SCCR 467). The summary had been a balanced one. [36] The specific directions given by the trial judge on identification were adequate. Indeed they fav......
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Note Of Appeal Against Conviction By Justinas Gubinas And Nerijus Radavicius Against Her Majesty's Advocate
...shows a person resembling the accused, so as to provide corroboration of a single eye witness identification (see Ralston v HM Advocate 1987 SCCR 467) and in a circumstantial case. In carrying out this task they would be entitled to compare the image with a photograph of the accused taken a......
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Appeals Against Conviction By (first) Stephen Sangster Senior And (second) Stephen Sangster Junior Against Her Majesty's Advocate
...an emphatic positive identification of both. In these circumstances not much was required by way of corroboration (Ralston v HM Advocate 1987 SCCR 467 at 472). The evidence of the identification parades was sufficient to corroborate the evidence of the complainer. It was clear that the ques......
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3 books & journal articles
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Indexes
...plc) v SpecialCommissioner of Income Tax [2013] UKSC 1,[2013]2 WLR 325. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65–77Ralston vHM Advocate 1987SCCR 467. . . . 15, 16Ramalingam Ravinthran v Attorney-General[2012]2 SLR 49. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265Ramsay vWatson (1961) 10......
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Corroboration in Scots Law: “Archaic Rule” or “Invaluable Safeguard”?
...•“where one starts with an emphatic positive identification by one witness, then very little else is required”;5757Ralston v HM Advocate 1987 SCCR 467. •dock identifications may act as corroboration even when not preceded by an identity parade or, worse still, where the witness identified o......
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‘Lend me your ears’
...RvSat Bhambra (1989) 88 Cr App R 55.27. RvGalbraith [1981] 2 All ER 1060.28. [1991] 93 Cr App R 161.29. Ralston vHM Advocate 1987 SCCR 467 at 47230. Burrows vHM Advocate 1951 SLT 69226 The International Journal of Evidence & Proof evidence. Evidence of voice recognition conducted over the t......