Thomas McAvoy John Francis Duffin Jackson Appellants Against HM Advocate

JurisdictionScotland
Neutral Citation1991 SCCR 123
Year1991
Date1991
CourtUnspecified Court (Scotland)
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5 cases
  • William Beck V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 30 April 2013
    ...done no more than the "bare minimum" in relation to evidence of identification, standing the test in, for example, McAvoy v HM Advocate 1991 SCCR 123. They also, secondly, criticised (para 177 et seq) the approach of the judge to the Crown and defence cases as trespassing into the jury's pr......
  • N.c. V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 18 September 2012
    ...25; 18 BHRC 500 Jenkins v HM AdvocateUNK [2011] HCJAC 86; 2011 SCCR 575; 2011 SCL 927 McAvoy v HM AdvocateSCUNK 1991 JC 16; 1992 SLT 46; 1991 SCCR 123 Morton v HM AdvocateSC 1938 JC 50; 1937 SN 108; 1938 SLT 27 Murphy v HM AdvocateUNK [2007] HCJAC 57; 2007 SLT 1079; 2007 SCCR 532; 2008 SCL ......
  • James Holland V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 21 August 2003
    ...further secured by decisions of this court in which the prescriptions of the 1977 Practice Note have been amplified. In McAvoy v HM Adv (1991 SCCR 123), Lord Justice Clerk Ross suggested more detailed comments on the subject that the trial judge, in his discretion, might wish to make (at p.......
  • Ian Gardiner V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 7 March 2002
    ...that be done by way of a general direction or one specific to the particular piece of evidence given by Mrs. Anderson. In McAvoy v. HMA 1991 SCCR 123 at 130, the court were satisfied that the terms of a question did not constitute making a reference to previous convictions of an accused but......
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  • Indexes
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 18-4, October 2014
    • 1 October 2014
    .... . . . . . 341Maryland vCraig, 497 US836 (1990) . . . . . . . .249McAvoy vHM Advocate 1983SLT 16 . . . . . . . . . 23McAvoy vHM Advocate 1991SCCR 123 . . . . . . 12McGiveran vAuld (1894) 21R (J) 69 . . . . . . . . . . . 6McLean vHM Advocate [2011]HCJAC 99 . . . . . 12McNally vHM Advocate [......

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