User:BrownHairedGirl/Ewan George Francis Stewart, Lord Stewart
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Ewan George Francis Stewart, Lord Stewart MC(9 May 1923 – 31 March 1987) was a Scottish lawyer and judge.
Stewart was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, and then at the University of Edinburgh
Royal Scots in WWII, Military Cross
adv 1949
stand couns to Ministry of Civil Aviation in Scotland 1955
hon sheriff Lothia and Peebles 1961
1962-65 New Zealand bar {herald}}
1965 advocate depute -- prosecuted murder trials, including Biggar murder and Garvie
1965 - police advisory board for Scotland
- Prof "gigantic confidence trick" March 1967 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19670301&id=XmNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f6MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3397,270944&hl=en
- 1967 - sol-gen
- 1969 -- as sol-gen, zealous prosecutor of Patrick Meehan -- note Ludo Kenendy's later remarks
- fairbairn 1987 -- prosecution of Patrick Meehan https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19871119&id=xzY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=NKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4070,5455417&hl=en
- 1969 -- cross-examine Meehan -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19691023&id=FJJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A6UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4349,4280494&hl=en
3 events while sol-gen:
- James Watt Street fire enquiry 1969 -
- 1969 - incest case - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19690515&id=UZZAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IqUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4228,2977763&hl=en
- Sept 1967 murder for 2nd time - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19670929&id=Dn9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vaMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3999,5125071&hl=en
- March 1969 - breathylyser test case - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19690329&id=ZpVAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GaUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2843,5479264&hl=en
- biggar murder - Linda Peacock murdered by Gordon Hay
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19680227&id=cX1AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3659,4943724&hl=en "woman witness tells of couple in churchyard"
- foresnic dentistry http://www.forensicdentistryonline.org/the-biggar-murder-warren-harvey/
- Critical year ahead as upsurge in crime continues -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19681227&id=P39AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=waMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4313,4555102&hl=en
- Dental expert all day in the witness box -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19680302&id=qX5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6424,310324&hl=en
- Youth (17) chatrged wit murder of Biggar schoolgirl -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iX5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uqMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3152%2C4802928
- The Murder of Linda Peacock: A Triumph for Forensic Odontologyby Det. Chief Supt. William Muncie Lanarkshire Constabulary -- http://pjx.sagepub.com/content/41/7/319.abstract
- See also Classic Scottish murder stories https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lMDLFqTkd7oC&pg=PT92&lpg=PT92&dq=%22garvie+case%22&source=bl&ots=u89qedDi6K&sig=_L79_jbtxoChKprTlUcZZHo3Lbg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw5fSVzafKAhXBXRQKHRUrAKMQ6AEINDAD#v=snippet&q=peacock&f=false
- Murder of Maxwell Garvie -
1970 eln - Lac Edinb Pentlands, failed
1971-75 Scottish Law Commission full-time
1971-7 Committee on criminal Procedure in Scotland
1973-75 Committee on the preapartion of legislation[1]
75 -- Senator of the College of Justice -- oath admin by Lord Emslie
76-82 chair of the Court of Stirling University
1977 -- committee on alternatives to prosecution
30 Sept 1986 - retired as judge, succeeded by Lord Prosser
died 31 March in Murrayfield hosp in Edinb aged 63
-- --- tributes
Len Murray QC -- one of the sharper forensic brains of his time
- 1987 - "nimble mind in inverse proportion to his modest height" - from Fairbairn "a life is too short" https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19871117&id=xjY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=NKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4012,5018441&hl=en
References
[edit]- ^ "Committee on public legislation named". The Times. No. Issue 58777. London, England. 9 May 1973. p. 4. Retrieved 10 January 2016 – via The Times Digital Archive.
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