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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.
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.
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 ...
A long-time member of the British Socialist Workers Party, he testified in Tommy Sheridan's defence at the Sheridan defamation trial and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity – Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the Scottish Socialist Party.
In 2010 Anwar acted as solicitor for Tommy Sheridan in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Sheridan sacked Anwar after a dispute between the two men over Anwar's refusal to stop writing a column for a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch .
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".
She was one of several members who gave evidence in the Sheridan v News International defamation action, and the subsequent criminal trial HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Former SSP leader Tommy Sheridan was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to three years in prison. [9] [10]