Andrew joined GCU in September 2014. He completed his LLB (Hons) at the University of Edinburgh (awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize for the most distinguished graduate of the year, jointly with Jill Robbie). He then completed an MSc in Equality and Human Rights at the University of Glasgow before embarking on doctoral study at the University of Oxford with a thesis focusing on the admissibility decision-making of the European Court of Human Rights.
Andrew’s teaching and research interests now include criminal law and evidence, devolution and public law, and, more recently, miscarriages of justice. He has also taught the National Council for the Training of Journalists courses in media law and court reporting for a number of years. Andrew has a particular interest in the intersection between law, politics and policy and has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament on 14 occasions during the last decade on diverse issues including hate crime, human rights, defamation, devolution, and domestic abuse.
Abstract
With the passage of the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, the Scottish Parliament has made the most significant reforms to reporting restrictions in criminal cases for decades, introducing automatic anonymity for complainers in sexual and other qualifying offences and new mechanisms for these restrictions to be set aside. This paper explores key features of these reforms in their international context, with a particular focus on the unfinished business of reforming the law on reporting restrictions in cases involving children.
- Speaker
- Dr Andrew Tickell
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen Law School
- Venue
- Taylor Building, Block C, Room C11/Microsoft Teams