Friday 20 June 2008

The scope of the appeal (continued)

As far as I can see from a trawl of the internet and the blogosphere, nothing has been published about the second, third and fourth days of the current procedural hearing about whether the scope of the new appeal should be limited to the issues on which the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission decided that there might have been a miscarriage of justice. However, an observer who was present in court during the submissions has informed me that his impression was that the Crown's arguments in favour of such limitation were subjected to rigorous scrutiny by the judges, and that the defence's arguments that there should be no such limitation (in accordance with existing appellate decisions) seemed to be more receptively entertained.

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