Gerald Gordon
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Sir Gerald Gordon KBE, QC is the editor of Scottish Criminal Case Reports and editor of Renton and Brown's Criminal Procedure.
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[edit] Previous appointments
Sir Gerald 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 Edinburgh University 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.
[edit] SCCRC
Sir Gerald has been a Board Member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) since its inception since April 1999. The SCCRC conducted a review of the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial. The Commission completed its review and announced its conclusions in 2007.
