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Latest News.
Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 - Disclosure Part 6 - disclosure briefing paper
18/10/2011
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Defence Statement Blank Documents
12/09/2011
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Connarty Stable Briefing Paper
17/08/2011
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Criminal Justice and Licensing
17/08/2011
Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 asp 13 (Scottish Act) Part 6 DISCLOSURE
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Dr Stuart McNee v HPC
19/05/2010
Alistair Forsyth acted for a supervising radiotherapy physicist in relation to the accidental exposure of a young girl to an excessive dose of radiation at the Beatson Oncology Centre. The case called before the Health Professions Council in Edinburgh over five days. Taking account of the context in which the accident occurred it was determined that the practice of the radiotherapy physicist was not impaired and the allegations were not well founded. The case was reported in the national press.
Billy Wright Inquiry
19/05/2010
A team from the Faculty of Advocates, including Murdo A. MacLeod QC from Connarty Advocates, has recently completed its involvement in Northern Ireland's long-running Billy Wright Inquiry.
Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright, 37, was gunned down by Republican prisoners in HM Prison Maze, Co Down, on 27 December 1997. Allegations of state collusion in the murder immediately sprang up. Following an unrelenting campaign by the deceased's father David Wright, an independent review by retired Canadian judge Hon. Peter Cory found 'sufficient evidence' of collusion to justify a public inquiry.
A major part of the Inquiry's task was the sifting of Prison Service, Army, Special Branch and MI5 papers. Over 100,000 pages were lodged as productions. In the course of 152 days of evidence there were 181 witnesses, many of whom were granted anonymity, ciphered and screened.
The most highly sensitive security material was dealt with in twelve closed sessions. Other significant witnesses included: Northern Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson; former heads of the RUC, Sir Hugh Annesley and Sir Ronnie Flanagan; former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Stevens, who led several inquiries into alleged collusion in Northern Ireland; former Security Ministers Sir John Wheeler and Adam Ingram; many prison Governors and senior civil servants; numerous expert witnesses and a number of ex-Maze prisoners.