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Police Suspensions Hit 5-Year High in Scotland: What It Means for Your Defence
Police Suspensions Hit 5-Year High: What This Means for Your Defence When confidence in policing is under strain, what safeguards exist to protect the innocent from investigative tunnel vision and institutional defensiveness? Beyond the Headlines: Suspension as a…
Not proven abolished in Scotland, Thomas Ross KC on the 2026 changes
Thomas Ross KC on the Demise of ‘Not Proven’ and Scotland’s New Jury Thresholds By Accused Scot | 12 January 2026 In a recent YouTube podcast episode, Craig Houston speaks with Thomas Leonard Ross KC, one of Scotland’s leading King’s…
Scotland Can’t Count Section 275 Properly — and SCTS Now Admits It
Scotland Can’t Count Section 275 Properly, and SCTS Now Admits It Section 275 is one of the most sensitive gates in Scottish criminal trials. It decides what the defence can ask, and what the jury is allowed to hear. Instead of clean records, SCTS has confirmed a…
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…