Hingston's Law

The Highland News has published a series of articles written by David Hingston. 

To read these, please click on the links below.

1. Rights and duties
2. Not Proven
3. Being a Witness
   1. Part 1
   2. Part 2
   3. Part 3
   4. Vulnerable Witnesses
4. Mobile phones / attending as a witness
5. Driving licences and penalty points
6. Motoring myths
7. Dead animals
8. Corroboration
9. Ways to 'help' your solicitor
10. Scotland is not England
11. Police investigating police
12. Defending the 'guilty'
13. Claims of 'rights'
14. Your Rights
    1. Police and your rights
    2. Myths about your 'rights'
15. Death on the roads
16. Capital punishment
17. Cannabis
18. Respect / price of goods
19. Unmarried relationships
20. Private prosecutions
21. Drugs
22. Interpreters
23. Compensation
24. The Procurator Fiscal
25. VIA / Identity parades
26. Changing your name
    1. Changing your name
    2. Changing your name continued / good name
27. Speed guns
28. Failure to pay
29. Speeding and other traffic offences
30. Anti social behaviour orders
31. Political correctness
32. Warrants and Bail
33. A career in law
34. Miscellaneous
35. Drink driving
36. Taser
37. Modern communications
38. Legal Aid / duty solicitor
39. Changing solicitor
40. Summary of evidence / changing of solicitor again/ duty solicitor again
41. What to do if charged with an offence
42. Children in cars
43. Quad and mini motor bikes / seized vehicles / lights
44. Blacked out windows / Complaints Commission
45. Politicians make the law
46. Fiscal Fines
47. Police bail and undertakings to appear
48. The price of Justice
49. Appeals
50. Identity theft
51. Lawyers at police interviews
52. How not to deal with the public
53. Driving someone else's car
54. Rights to have a solicitor present at interview
55. Community payback orders
56. The future
57. Plea bargaining