Although he lost that round of his battle, he was advised by Lord Carloway, in a judgement at the High
Court of Justiciary, to pursue the matter through civil proceedings.
Arguments and decisions in remarkable cases before the High
Court of Justiciary and other supreme courts in Scotland.
It provides: "In the determination of his civil rights and obligations or of any criminal charge against him, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law." The Crown obtained review but a majority of the High
Court of Justiciary refused the appeal in April 2001.
A spokesman for the High
Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh said a date had been fixed for a preliminary hearing in October at Camp Zeist in Holland.
Ian Hamilton, Q.C., wig, gown and fall apart, bears scant resemblance to the Scottish Silk, dour or douce, who normally habituates the ringing stone passages and panelled justice halls of Edinburgh's High
Court of Justiciary. Having made his autobiographical debut a quinquennium ago with A Touch of Treason, which I reviewed in these pages in April 1992, wherein was presented the authorised version of his larceny: (Was it that dishonestly appropriated, perhaps: but, intention `permanently' to deprive?
Now Donaldson - who has been linked to serious organised crime for 30 years - has lodged an appeal at the High
Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, claiming his sentence is too severe.
A High
Court of Justiciary spokeswoman said yesterday that the deadline had passed for paperwork to be lodged to continue the legal process to have the case looked at by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
His lawyers lodged a notification of intent to appeal with the High
Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, a Scottish Executive spokesman confirmed.
It also generated the records at the core of her study: cases heard by the High
Court of Justiciary. So, where do the ballads fit in?
No date has yet been set for the trial, which will be before the High
Court of Justiciary, sitting at Kamp Van Zeist.
And there is no denying the Edinburgh presence, scampering, velvet-coated, a Hyde, up the Lothian Road; a not altogether willingly wigged and robed Jekyll, stalking the corridors of the High
Court of Justiciary; a small boy gazing entranced into the penny plain, tuppence coloured little old stationer's shop in Antigua Street, or at desert island play amid the boscage of the deep green ravine garden between Heriot Row and Queen Street; a little child in the old nursery aloft at No.
Therefore, I'm going to remit it to the High
Court of Justiciary."