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The Sheriff Appeal Court refused the Crown’s appeal against acquittal for malicious mischief arising from peaceful protest spray-painting at Glasgow University.
John (Helen) v Donnelly [1999] ScotHC HCJ_257 (23 July 1999)
The High Court of Justiciary rejected a protester's appeal, holding that her belief in the illegality of nuclear weapons was not a reasonable excuse for cutting a fence.
Bett v Hamilton (aka Bett v Brown) [1997] ScotHC HCJ_3 (23 July 1997)
The High Court of Justiciary held that disrupting a security camera without causing financial loss did not amount to malicious mischief; the appeal was allowed.
Clark v Syme [1956] ScotHC HCJ_1 (03 October 1956)
The High Court of Justiciary held that deliberately shooting a trespassing sheep amounted to malicious mischief, despite the respondent’s claimed legal misconception.
Ward v Robertson [1937] ScotHC HCJ_1 (10 November 1937)
The High Court of Justiciary allowed an appeal against a malicious mischief conviction arising from trespassing across grassland and causing damage.
Helen John v. Procurator Fiscal, Dumbarton [1999] ScotHC 194 (23rd July, 1999)
A sincere belief in the illegality of nuclear weapons and their potential effects does not amount to a reasonable excuse under section 52(1) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation)(Scotland) Act 1995; the magistrate was entitled to find that nothing established before him amounted to a reasonable excuse.
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