Megrahi's legal team have now lodged written Grounds of Appeal with the High Court of Justiciary. These will go before a single judge (the "sifting judge") who must decide if any of them are unarguable, in which case only those which remain will be argued before the Appeal Court.
His lawyers have also lodged a specification of documents calling upon the court to order the Crown to disclose to the defence documents in their possession which were made available to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission but which were never disclosed to the defence. The Crown's failure to do so formed the basis of one of the six reasons for the SCCRC's deciding that Megrahi's conviction might have been a miscarriage of justice. See today's earlier post Top secret Lockerbie report not disclosed by Crown.
It is understood that a procedural hearing on these matters will be held in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh on Thursday 11 October. It is unlikely that Mr Megrahi will be present at this hearing, which may also fix a provisional timetable for the proceedings.
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