Daily Record

21st January, 2011

TOMMY and Gail Sheridan plan to sue police over the way they were treated as officers probed perjury charges.

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Ian Hamilton QC

14th January, 2011

Let all who love freedom rejoice. The state which permits our bankers to steal millions is in trouble. It may not be big trouble but revolutions sometimes start with a tiny touch of indigestion. This disorder is bound to start quite soon. Its name is Tommy Sheridan.

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* News of the World phone-hacking scandal

Fresh phone-hacking document to increase pressure on News of the World

• Police to release previously undisclosed records

• Details may put pressure on Andy Coulson

* Jamie Doward

* guardian.co.uk,

Sunday 9 January 2011 00.05 GMT

Andy Coulson The documents are expected to trigger fresh allegations of phone-hacking at the News of the World, formerly edited by Andy Coulson.

The scandal threatening to engulf the News of the World will intensify this week when the Metropolitan police hands over previously undisclosed documents relating to the hacking of celebrities’ mobile phones while the paper was edited by Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s communications director. Read the rest of this entry »

Ian Hamilton QC

6th January, 2011

I fear for what is happening to the administration of justice. I blame the SNP because they are the government. It started under Labour so an election will make no difference. Here are examples of what I fear.

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Kenneth Roy

Scottish Review

7th January, 2011

Unknown to the public, there exists a remarkably close relationship between the Crown Office, the police and the media, including the release – the authorised release – of material relating to criminal trials, documents that once would have been considered sacrosanct. So, before we turn to the urgent business of unauthorised releases, let’s look at the stuff going out to the media which is completely above-board.

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Scotsman

7th January

THREE new witnesses have come forward claiming they can give disgraced former Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan an alibi for the night he is alleged to have been at a swingers’ club.

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Firm Magazine

3rd January, 2011

Former criminal practitioner and Scots law elder statesman Ian Hamilton QC warns that the reliance by the Crown of paid witnesses in the Sheridan prosecution raises troubling implications for the integrity of Scots justice.

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Guardian

15th December, 2010

Click here for coverage of Sheridan trial

Lawyers have secured explosive new evidence linking one of the News of the World‘s most senior editorial executives to the hacking of voicemail messages from the phones of Sienna Miller, Jude Law and their friends and employees.

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