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End of 2025: The view from the wrong side of the dock
End of 2025: The View From the Dock If you’ve never been falsely accused, it’s easy to imagine the system as a straight line: Report, investigation, trial, truth. But for a growing number of men in Scotland, 2025 has looked like something else entirely. It is a…
Not Proven Had to Die Because It Wouldn’t Deliver Convictions
Not Proven Had to Die Because It Wouldn’t Deliver Convictions Scotland didn’t “simplify” verdicts. It moved the pressure point, and the accused man is where the weight lands. accused.scot • Final piece for 2025 • In force from 1 January 2026 Let’s stop pretending this…
When You’re Innocent, Prison Isn’t the Worst Part
Because twenty years is worth more than a headline When You’re Innocent, Prison Isn’t the Worst Part. The Silence Is. Two years inside.Twenty years known.And still, they vanish.By the time you’re two years in, you stop expecting anyone to answer.Not because you’ve…
An Open Letter to Women’s Organisations in Scotland
An Open Letter to Women’s Organisations in Scotland Protecting complainers and admitting innocent men exist are not mutually exclusive This is a request for three simple sentences. Not a debate. Not a panel. Not another carefully worded statement that says everything…
The Mercy of Ink: Final Letters from the Revolutionary Guillotine
Historical Parallel | Scottish Jurisprudence The Letters That No One Reads Anymore This article is inspired by a post, shared on X by @archeohistories, reflects on letters written by ordinary people condemned during the French Revolution, people whose fate was decided…
Christmas Inside a Case Built to Fit
Christmas Inside a Case Built to Fit Reflections from a Scottish Prison Christmas in prison is not quiet. It’s not reflective. It’s not a sad little pause where a man learns life lessons. It’s noise without meaning. Doors clanging. Keys scraping. Radios barking. Boots…
Scotland 2025 and Orwell’s Warning: The Erosion of Fair Trial Rights
Scotland, 2025, and Orwell’s Warning Read Animal Farm and 1984 again, and you start to notice something unsettling. Not because Scotland is a totalitarian state, it isn’t. It’s because Orwell understood how a society can keep the outer shape of fairness while quietly…
Victims, Witnesses & Justice Reform Act 2025: Key Changes (Scotland)
Foreword: This article examines the recent Sexual Offences Review report and its implications for the Scottish legal system. Many of the review’s recommendations have since been taken forward through the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025,…
A Jury Cannot Judge What It Is Forbidden to See
A jury cannot judge what it is forbidden to see When relevant context is withheld from juries, trials stop looking like a search for truth and start looking like managed outcomes. Scotland is sliding toward a justice system where juries in sexual offence trials are…