A panoply of sentencing guidance: the Crown appeals against sentence in HM Advocate v McMahon; HM Advocate v Lambert – Part 1: the decisions in McMahon and Lambert, the appeal court’s observations on the seriousness of s.18 rape, and the increasing numbers of Crown appeals against sentence in cases of rape
A panoply of sentencing guidance: the Crown appeals against sentence in HM Advocate v McMahon; HM Advocate v Lambert – Part 2: sentencing serious crime and the interpretation of harm; observations on grooming; and a review of contemporary sentencing practice
A panoply of sentencing guidance: the Crown appeals against sentence in HM Advocate v McMahon; HM Advocate v Lambert – Part 3: non-fatal strangulation, the use of sentencing guidelines, extended sentences for sexual offences, and the guilty plea discount
What is "sexual" for the purposes of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009? Motive may actually be relevant after all, but should it be? The Appeal Court's decision in the appeal from the Sheriff Appeal Court in Kennedy v PF, Aberdeen
