14-526: Lord Cullen has conducted inquiries into three major British disasters, all of which are known as the Cullen Inquiry : The Piper Alpha oil platform disaster, 6 July 1988. The Dunblane Massacre of schoolchildren, 13 March 1996. The Ladbroke Grove rail crash , west London of 5 October 1999. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
28-795: A judge in 1985. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice , a judge of the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session , as Lord Cullen . From 1988 to 1990 he conducted the Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster and in 1996 he chaired the Public Inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School . In October 1999 he was appointed to chair the Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry . He
42-664: A judicial court for the trial. The court was established in a neutral country as part of a deal between Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and the British government , before Gaddafi would allow the extradition of the two accused. Under a bilateral treaty between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands , the premises of the court were, for the duration of the trial and any subsequent appeal , under
56-687: Is a former senior member of the Scottish judiciary . He formerly served as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session , and was an additional Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords prior to the transfer of its judicial functions to the Supreme Court . William Douglas Cullen was educated at the High School of Dundee and the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh . He
70-675: The Scottish Executive announced that Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton , a member of the Inner House of the Court of Session , would succeed him as the new Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session. On 17 June 2003, Cullen was created a life peer , as Baron Cullen of Whitekirk , of Whitekirk in East Lothian . He sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords until his retirement in 2019. He
84-470: The Netherlands was a special sitting of the High Court of Justiciary set up under Scots law in a former United States Air Force base, Camp Zeist near Utrecht , in the Netherlands , for the trial of two Libyans charged with 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland, on 21 December 1988. A school on the former base was converted into
98-641: The authority and control of the court. Since the arrangement had been called for by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1192 , it was given effect in Scots law by an Order-in-Council under the United Nations Act 1946 . Dutch law still theoretically applied to the area, but, barring an emergency, the Dutch authorities were banned from entering the premises and the court had the authority to enact regulations that superseded Dutch law when necessary for
112-483: The execution of the trial, and to jail people for contempt of court . The court itself, as well as people involved in the trial (officials of the court, accused, witnesses, solicitors, etc.), also enjoyed total or partial immunity from Dutch law. The court convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing on 31 January 2001. The second accused, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah ,
126-563: The title Cullen Inquiry . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cullen_Inquiry&oldid=333465543 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk William Douglas Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk (born 18 November 1935)
140-708: Was Lord Justice Clerk and president of the Second Division of the Inner House from 1997 to 2002, when he was appointed Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session . In March 2002, Lord Cullen led the 5-judge tribunal at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands which heard the failed appeal of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 . On 15 July 2005, Lord Cullen announced his intention to retire in November 2005. On 24 November
154-576: Was acquitted . Megrahi's appeal was also held at the court (the High Court of Justiciary is the highest court of appeal in the Scottish criminal justice system), and was rejected on 14 March 2002. The site was then decommissioned and returned to the Dutch government. Megrahi served his sentence at Greenock prison in Inverclyde . From September 2003, Megrahi's conviction was under review by
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#1732766080289168-662: Was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1962 and was Standing Junior Counsel to Her Majesty's Customs and Excise from 1970 to 1973. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1973 and served as an Advocate Depute from 1978 to 1981. From 1984 to 1986 Cullen served as Chairperson of the influential Edinburgh conservationist group the Cockburn Association . Lord Cullen was a chairman of the Medical Appeal Tribunals from 1977 until his appointment as
182-686: Was also formally installed as chancellor of Abertay University in Dundee, a position he held for a decade. In 1995 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Cullen also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1995 He was sworn in as a Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1997. Scottish Court in the Netherlands The Scottish court in
196-600: Was also one of five additional Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords . On 25 June 2005, he was elected president of the Saltire Society , replacing The Right Honourable The Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, K.T. On 30 November 2007 it was announced that Lord Cullen would be appointed a Knight of the Thistle . He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in Edinburgh on 2 July 2008. On 4 September 2009 he
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