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Sir Gerald Henry Gordon (born 17 June 1929) is a Scottish lawyer who is the editor of ''Scottish Criminal Case Reports'' and ''Renton and Brown's Criminal Procedure'', and author of ''The Criminal Law of Scotland''.


Previous appointments

Gordon was a
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from 1976 to 1999 and a Temporary Judge at the High Court until June 2004. He was Professor of Scots law at the
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from 1972 to 1976 and Head of Department of Criminal Law and Criminology there from 1965 to 1972. He practised as an
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from 1953 to 1959 and was Procurator Fiscal Depute from 1960 to 1965.


SCCRC

Gordon was a Member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) from its inception in 1999 until 2009. During this time, the SCCRC conducted a review of the conviction of
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in the
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.


Honours and awards

Gordon was appointed a Commander of the
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(CBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours and knighted in 2000. In 2002, Gordon was elected an Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...
.


See also

* Professor Robert Black * The Criminal Law of Scotland


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Gerald 1929 births Academics of the University of Edinburgh Members of the Faculty of Advocates Scottish legal scholars Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Knights Bachelor Lawyers awarded knighthoods Living people Scottish sheriffs Scottish King's Counsel Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh