Report and Recommendations - Scottish Government

of the points made at each of these roadshows were published on the Reviewwebsite.Research1.0.15 In addition to the consultation process, the Review sought to explore the lawand practice in a number of other jurisdictions and the resultant jurisprudenceflowing from the applicability of the European Convention. This involved acombination of desk research and discussions with practitioners and academicexperts in those areas. A list of those with whom these issues were discussedis set out at Annex E. It is, however, worth describing the principaldiscussions that the Review undertook. The Review visited Manchester andLondon in order to have a greater understanding of PACE and the differenttest for sufficiency of evidence in England and Wales. It had a series ofmeetings with defence counsel and solicitors, the police, and the CrownProsecution Service. In Manchester it visited the Crown Court and discussedthe issues with the judges there. In London it went to the Criminal AppealCourt with a view to seeing how the appeal system operated in relation to bothprocedure and the substantive merits of cases. It also sought to ascertain howthe Court interacted with the Criminal Cases Review Commission in Englandand Wales. It visited Birmingham in order to seek the CCRC view on thesame and other topics. The Review visited Dublin to see how Ireland wasapproaching the central issues of custody and access to legal advice and tounderstand its appeal system, including appeals to Ireland’s Supreme Court.There it also met with defence counsel and solicitors, the Director of PublicProsecutions and police as well as the judges. At various points, the Review17