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Criminal law [2018] ScotHC HCJAC_65

IQBAL, APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION AND SENTENCE BY NAVEED IQBAL AGAINST HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE

IQBAL, APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION AND SENTENCE BY NAVEED IQBAL AGAINST HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE [2018] ScotHC HCJAC_65 (03 October 2018)

Appeal court upheld Naveed Iqbal’s convictions and 16-year sentence for attempted murder by fire-bombing, finding the jury had a cogent evidential basis.

  • Attempted murder
  • Fire-raising
  • Evidence assessment
  • Jury directions
  • Sentence appropriateness
  • Attempted-murder
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Criminal law [2017] ScotHC HCJAC_16

Feeney v HM Advocate

Feeney v HM Advocate [2017] ScotHC HCJAC_16 (17 March 2017)

Appeal Court reduced a sentence for culpable and reckless fire-raising, holding the sheriff had not fully distinguished it from wilful fire-raising.

  • Culpable and reckless conduct
  • Sentencing
  • Fire-raising
  • Appeal against sentence
  • Appeal-against-sentence
  • Culpable-and-reckless-conduct
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Criminal law [2016] ScotHC HCJAC_42

Martin v HM Advocate

Martin v HM Advocate [2016] ScotHC HCJAC_42 (29 April 2016)

The appeal court held there was sufficient circumstantial evidence to identify the appellant in a series of fire-raising and theft charges, and refused the appeal.

  • Fire-raising
  • Theft
  • Breach of the peace
  • Evidence
  • Corroboration
  • Sentencing
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Criminal law [2016] ScotHC HCJAC_35

Hill v HM Advocate

Hill v HM Advocate [2016] ScotHC HCJAC_35 (27 April 2016)

The Appeal Court held there was sufficient circumstantial evidence to identify Hill as the fire-raiser and refused his appeal against conviction.

  • Corroboration
  • Circumstantial evidence
  • Attempted murder
  • Fire-raising
  • Communications act offences
  • Circumstantial-evidence
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Criminal law [2011] ScotHC HCJAC_80

Petto v HM Advocate

Petto v HM Advocate [2011] ScotHC HCJAC_80 (10 August 2011)

Appeal against conviction refused. The court held that wilful fire-raising in an occupied tenement could found murder, and the guilty plea could not be withdrawn.

  • Murder
  • Mens rea
  • Fire-raising
  • Withdrawal of guilty plea
  • Mens-rea
  • Guilty-plea-withdrawal
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