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Her Majesty's Advocate v Thomas Sheridan and Gail Sheridan was the 2010 criminal prosecution of Tommy Sheridan, a former Member of the Scottish Parliament and his wife Gail Sheridan for perjury in relation to an earlier civil case called Sheridan v News Group Newspapers.
In 2010, he was the judge in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. In 2012, he twice presided over murder trials which resulted in convictions despite the absence of a body. In the first of these, HM Advocate v Gilroy , television cameras were allowed into the High Court in Edinburgh to record the sentencing of the convicted, David Gilroy.
Cadder v HM Advocate 2010 UKSC 43; Cawthorne v HM Advocate 1968 JC 32; Cinci v HM Advocate 2004; Crawford v HM Advocate 1950 JC 67; Drury v HM Advocate 2001 SCCR 583; HM Advocate v Ross 1991 JC 210; Jamieson v HM Advocate 1994 SLT 537; Khaliq v HM Advocate 1984 JC 23; McKearney v HM Advocate 2004; HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan 2010; Smart ...
Bob Bird is the former editor of the Scottish edition of the defunct News of the World tabloid. [1]He is best known for the widespread media coverage over his role in two trials involving former Scottish MSP Tommy Sheridan: the 2006 Sheridan v News Group Newspapers defamation case and the 2010 HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan perjury case.
HM Advocate v Ambrose & Ors [2011] UKSC 43 6 October 2011 Right to counsel; Article 6, ECHR: HM Advocate v P [2011] UKSC 44 6 October 2011 Right to counsel; Article 6, ECHR: R (Bibi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] UKSC 45 12 October 2011 Immigration law; Article 8, ECHR: AXA General Insurance Ltd v The Lord Advocate
15 November – City of Glasgow College officially launched by merger (agreed during 2009) ... 23 December – HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan: ...
He often represented high-profile clients in controversial criminal cases. He led the legal teams which won the acquittal of human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar of contempt of court in July 2008, and Gail Sheridan of perjury in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. When he was appointed to the latter case the Daily Record called it a "legal dream team".
In December 2010, Coulson – while under oath as a witness in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan – denied any knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World or that he knew the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. [9]