Sir Gerald Henry Gordon (born 17 June 1929)
is a Scottish lawyer who is the editor of ''Scottish Criminal Case Reports'' and of ''Renton and Brown's Criminal Procedure'', and author of ''The Criminal Law of Scotland''.
Previous appointments
Gordon was a
Sheriff from 1976 to 1999 and a Temporary Judge at the High Court until June 2004. He was Professor of Scots law at the
University of Edinburgh
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from 1972 to 1976 and Head of Department of Criminal law and Criminology there from 1965 to 1972. He practised as an
Advocate from 1953 to 1959 and was Procurator Fiscal Depute from 1960 to 1965.
SCCRC
Gordon was a Member of the
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, established by the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (as amended by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1 ...
(SCCRC) from its inception in 1999 until 2009.
During this time the SCCRC conducted a review of the conviction of
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
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in the
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial
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.
Honours and awards
Gordon was appointed a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(CBE) in the
1995 Birthday Honours and knighted in 2000.
In 2002, Gordon was elected an Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh.
See also
*
Professor Robert Black
* The Criminal Law of Scotland
References
1929 births
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Members of the Faculty of Advocates
Scottish legal scholars
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
Lawyers awarded knighthoods
Living people
Scottish sheriffs
Scottish King's Counsel
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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