http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/-t1.htm The appeal hearing began at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands on Wednesday, 23 January 2002 before a Bench of five judges chaired by the Lord Justice General for Scotland (The Right Honourable Lord Cullen). The other Judges are Lord Kirkwood, Lord Osborne, Lord Macfadyen and Lord Nimmo-Smith. Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:38:07 GMT 10 http://i33.servimg.com/u/f33/12/93/77/53/logo10.jpg http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/-t1.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/justice-for-megrahi-t345.htm Admin The father of a Lockerbie bombing victim has launched a bid to free the man convicted of carrying it out. Dr Jim Swire - who lost his daughter Flora in the 1988 atrocity - is backing the Justice for Megrahi campaign. Supporters want Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to be released from jail on compassionate grounds after it emerged he was suffering from prostate cancer. An application for the Libyan's interim liberation was turned down by the Appeal Court in Edinburgh last month. 'Common ... Lockerbie Trial Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:38:07 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/justice-for-megrahi-t345.htm#456 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/justice-for-megrahi-t345.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/letter-from-the-architect-of-the-lockerbie-trial-t331.htm Admin Prof. Robert Black weighs in "As a result of today's meeting, I am satisfied that not only was there a wrongful conviction, but the victim of it was an innocent man. Lawyers, and I hope others, will appreciate this distinction." -- Pr Robert Black, Meeting with al Megrahi in prison, Nov. 1, 2007 Prof. Robert Black is often referred to as the architect of the Lockerbie trial at camp Zeist in the Netherlands under Scots Law. Several pieces have appeared over the week end ... Lockerbie Trial Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:51:34 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/letter-from-the-architect-of-the-lockerbie-trial-t331.htm#434 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/letter-from-the-architect-of-the-lockerbie-trial-t331.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/tam-dalyell-issue-is-not-only-megrahi-but-integrity-of-scottish-legal-system-this-case-does-not-cease-simply-because-of-death-t329.htm Admin ALLOW me to wonder what is going through the minds of Lord Sutherland, Lord Coulsfield and Lord MacLean, the judges at the historic trial at Camp Zeist. Unease? Consternation? Sheer, incandescent anger? For the unchallenged facts have now emerged as to the extent to which the Crown Office withheld information from the judges, quite apart from failing in their duty to make available crucial information to the defence. This was sheer deceit. In particular, that heavyweight and distinguished ... Lockerbie Trial Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:37:45 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/tam-dalyell-issue-is-not-only-megrahi-but-integrity-of-scottish-legal-system-this-case-does-not-cease-simply-because-of-death-t329.htm#432 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/tam-dalyell-issue-is-not-only-megrahi-but-integrity-of-scottish-legal-system-this-case-does-not-cease-simply-because-of-death-t329.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/send-cards-of-support-to-abdelbaset-ali-mohmed-al-megrahi-t316.htm Admin Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the murder of 270 people by blowing up an airliner over the town almost 20 years ago, is understood to have been given weeks to live by doctors, after hospital tests confirmed he had "advanced stage" prostate cancer. Prisoners thought to have less than three months to live in Scotland can apply for early release on compassionate grounds. The families of British casualties called on ministers to release Megrahi if ... Lockerbie Trial Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:12:55 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/send-cards-of-support-to-abdelbaset-ali-mohmed-al-megrahi-t316.htm#419 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/send-cards-of-support-to-abdelbaset-ali-mohmed-al-megrahi-t316.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/news-15-oct-2008-megrahi-appeal-to-extend-beyond-5-grounds-of-miscarriage-referral-t308.htm Admin At a procedural hearing conducted just minutes ago, the High Court has ruled that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmad Al Megrahi may proceed with his second appeal against conviction on more grounds that those ennumerated by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. In 2007 the SCCRC decided that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred in his case, citing only 5 reasons for its referral, relating principally to the manner of the identification of Megrahi by one trial witness in Malta. The ... Lockerbie Trial Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:16:36 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/news-15-oct-2008-megrahi-appeal-to-extend-beyond-5-grounds-of-miscarriage-referral-t308.htm#411 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/news-15-oct-2008-megrahi-appeal-to-extend-beyond-5-grounds-of-miscarriage-referral-t308.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/the-lockerbie-case-blog-t284.htm Anonymous The Lockerbie Case blog, which tries to cover developments in the new appeal by Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, has been running since July 2007, shortly after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission referred his case back to the High Court of Justiciary. It can be accessed]]> Lockerbie Trial Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:48:27 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/the-lockerbie-case-blog-t284.htm#380 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/the-lockerbie-case-blog-t284.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-justice-or-politics-jim-swire-t299.htm Admin During the publicity surrounding the Greshornish House (Skye) Accord, to which Prof. Hans Koechler, official representative of the previous Secretary General of the UN has attached his name, an extraordinary situation has been exposed to public view. In a letter to Tam Dalyell Kim Howells of the Foreign Office (F&CO) has confirmed that a special counsel has been agreed to, to represent Mr Megrahi's defence over the contents of the famous 'document from a foreign power', one can ... Lockerbie Trial Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:10:19 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-justice-or-politics-jim-swire-t299.htm#397 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-justice-or-politics-jim-swire-t299.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/remembering-lockerbie-t280.htm Admin
Remembering Lockerbie]]> Lockerbie Trial Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:24:08 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/remembering-lockerbie-t280.htm#375 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/remembering-lockerbie-t280.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-case-must-be-proved-beyond-reasonable-doubt-t211.htm Admin Lockerbie case must be proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' January 30, 2001 Web posted at: 7:32 p.m. EST (0032 GMT) By Raju Chebium CNN.com Correspondent WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Does the circumstantial evidence presented by Scottish prosecutors in the Lockerbie bombing trial prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Libyans Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988? Law professors closely watching ... Lockerbie Trial Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:10:50 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-case-must-be-proved-beyond-reasonable-doubt-t211.htm#286 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-case-must-be-proved-beyond-reasonable-doubt-t211.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-father-dismisses-claims-t96.htm Admin “I just wish the needs of the relatives – namely a thirst for the truth – would be attended to rather than an alleged hunger for money." Lockerbie campaigner Dr Jim Swire 10:20am Wednesday 3rd September 2008 A FORMER Bromsgrove GP, whose daughter was killed in the Lockerbie air disaster, has dismissed accusations by the son of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi that the Lockerbie relatives were “very greedy”. Dr Jim Swire, formerly of Pikespool Lane, and whose 23-year-old ... Lockerbie Trial Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:04:05 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-father-dismisses-claims-t96.htm#121 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-father-dismisses-claims-t96.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/inconvenient-truths-t62.htm Admin http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n12/mile01_.html Hugh Miles On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was 38 minutes into its journey when it was blown up at 31,000 feet. The explosion was so powerful that the nose of the aircraft was torn clean off. Within three seconds of the bomb detonating, the cockpit, fuselage and No. 3 engine were falling separately out of the sky. It happened so quickly that no distress call was sent out and no oxygen masks deployed. With the cockpit gone, the fuselage ... Lockerbie Trial Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:10:16 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/inconvenient-truths-t62.htm#68 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/inconvenient-truths-t62.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/justice-scotched-in-lockerbie-trial-t4.htm Admin There's a famous passage in Lord Cockburn's Memorials of His Time where the great Scotch judge and leading Whig stigmatizes some of his Tory predecessors on the bench, including the terrible Lord Braxfield, who presided over what Cockburn called "the indelible iniquity" of the sedition trials of 1793 and 1794. "Let them bring me prisoners, and I'll find them law," Cockburn quotes Braxfield as saying privately, also whispering from the bench to a juror he knew, "Come awa, ... Lockerbie Trial Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:17:38 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/justice-scotched-in-lockerbie-trial-t4.htm#4 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/justice-scotched-in-lockerbie-trial-t4.htm http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-trial-t1.htm Admin The documents below contain copies of the judgment of the Lockerbie trial, and appeal. Select the appropriate icon to download the document in either Rich Text or PDF format. The appeal hearing began at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands on Wednesday, 23 January 2002 before a Bench of five judges chaired by the Lord Justice General for Scotland (The Right Honourable Lord Cullen). The other Judges are Lord Kirkwood, Lord Osborne, Lord Macfadyen and Lord Nimmo-Smith. http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/library/lockerbie/index.asp Lockerbie Trial Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:38:01 GMT http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-trial-t1.htm#1 http://scotchedjustice.forumotion.com/lockerbie-trial-f5/lockerbie-trial-t1.htm