Stillie v HM Advocate

JurisdictionScotland
Neutral Citation1990 SCCR 719
Date1990
Year1990
CourtHigh Court of Justiciary
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6 cases
  • William Beck V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 30 April 2013
    ...of the use of the words "reasonably certain", as analysed in particular in Gilmour v HM Advocate 2007 SCCR 417 and Stillie v HM Advocate 1990 SCCR 719, where it was said not to have amounted to a miscarriage of justice. Nevertheless, they went on to express the contrary view that the misdir......
  • McLay v HM Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 25 March 1994
    ...been for evidence of statements by an incriminee to be held admissible, and as an example of this he cited Stillie v. H.M. AdvocateUNK 1992 S.L.T. 279. Counsel, however, recognised that this might mean no more than that the Crown had not chosen to raise the issue on previous occasions, and ......
  • Douglas v HM Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 10 June 2020
    ...596 R v Straffen [1952] 2 QB 911; [1952] 2 All ER 657; [1952] 2 TLR 589; (1952) 36 Cr App R 132; (1952) 116 JP 536 Stillie v HM Advocate 1992 SLT 279; 1990 SCCR 719 Vogan v HM Advocate 2003 SCCR 564; 2003 GWD 28–779 Textbooks etc referred to: Hume, D, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland Res......
  • C.w.a. V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 17 January 2003
    ...resulted in a miscarriage of justice. In reaching this view, we have taken a similar approach to that of the court in Stillie v HM Adv (1992 SLT 279). That was a case where the trial judge had attempted to explain the meaning of reasonable doubt by saying that the test was one of "reasonabl......
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