Sccrc

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of Joanne Hughes on behalf of the late Caren Lorimer to the High Court of Justiciary for determination. In 2009, Mrs Lorimer pled guilty at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court to one charge of embezzlement from a post office. The court imposed

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of Bryan Moorehead to the High Court of Justiciary for determination. In 2018 the applicant was convicted of a charge of assault to injury and sentenced to 42 months' imprisonment, a period which was ordered to run consecutively to

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) has referred the cases of former subpostmasters (SPMs) to the High Court of Justiciary. The convictions of Aleid Kloosterhuis, Anne Quarm on behalf of William Quarm (deceased), Susan Sinclair, Colin Smith, Judith Smith and Robert Thomson have bee

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the sentence of AZ to the High Court of Justiciary. In 2011 AZ was convicted after trial of a single charge of the murder of her newborn son. The court sentenced her to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 15 years.

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the sentence of Dillin Armstrong to the High Court of Justiciary. On 26 August 2019, after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, the jury found the applicant and three co-accused guilty of the attempted murder of a young man. The jury foun

Michael Walker will be the next chief executive of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). Currently the commission’s head of casework and information governance, Mr Walker will succeed Gerard Sinclair, who retires in September.

Gerard Sinclair, chief executive of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is to retire in September. Mr Sinclair joined the commission in 2003 and will have served for over 18 years when he retires, which the commission believes makes him the longest serving chief executive of such an arm&rs

Three men convicted of rape in 2000 have had their cases referred by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) to the High Court of Justiciary. The SCCRC believes there may have been a miscarriage of justice in the case of David Sutherland Pugh, Kevin James Kane and Brian James Meighan,

More than 70 sub-postmasters with fraud and theft convictions in Scotland have been encouraged to contact the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) if they believe they have suffered a miscarriage of justice. It comes after nearly 50 postmasters in the rest of the UK had their conviction

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of a man convicted of drug offences to the High Court of Justiciary. On 19 December 2017 at Dundee Sheriff Court the applicant, Liston Craig Pacitti, pled guilty to an amended charge of culpable and reckless conduct by supplyin

Solicitor Carol Gammie and advocate Laura Reilly have been appointed to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) for a four-year term. Ms Gammie is a solicitor, trained with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) before practising criminal defence in Kilmarnock for a num

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of Sean Connelly to the High Court of Justiciary. In accordance with the commission’s statutory obligations, a statement of reasons for its decision has been sent to the High Court, Livingstone Brown Solicitors and the Cr