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Ewan George Francis Stewart, Lord Stewart MC(9 May 1923 – 31 March 1987) was a Scottish lawyer and judge.

Stewart was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, and then at the University of Edinburgh

Royal Scots in WWII, Military Cross

adv 1949

stand couns to Ministry of Civil Aviation in Scotland 1955

hon sheriff Lothia and Peebles 1961

1962-65 New Zealand bar {herald}}

1965 advocate depute -- prosecuted murder trials, including Biggar murder and Garvie

1965 - police advisory board for Scotland

Prof "gigantic confidence trick" March 1967 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19670301&id=XmNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f6MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3397,270944&hl=en

1967 - sol-gen

1969 -- as sol-gen, zealous prosecutor of Patrick Meehan -- note Ludo Kenendy's later remarks
fairbairn 1987 -- prosecution of Patrick Meehan https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19871119&id=xzY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=NKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4070,5455417&hl=en
1969 -- cross-examine Meehan -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19691023&id=FJJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A6UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4349,4280494&hl=en

3 events while sol-gen:

James Watt Street fire enquiry 1969 -
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19690204&id=339AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0KMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5720,537207&hl=en
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19690205&id=4H9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0KMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5890,704718&hl=en
1969 - incest case - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19690515&id=UZZAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IqUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4228,2977763&hl=en
Sept 1967 murder for 2nd time - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19670929&id=Dn9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vaMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3999,5125071&hl=en
March 1969 - breathylyser test case - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19690329&id=ZpVAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GaUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2843,5479264&hl=en
biggar murder - Linda Peacock murdered by Gordon Hay
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19680227&id=cX1AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3659,4943724&hl=en "woman witness tells of couple in churchyard"
- foresnic dentistry http://www.forensicdentistryonline.org/the-biggar-murder-warren-harvey/
- Critical year ahead as upsurge in crime continues -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19681227&id=P39AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=waMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4313,4555102&hl=en
- Dental expert all day in the witness box -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19680302&id=qX5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6424,310324&hl=en
- Youth (17) chatrged wit murder of Biggar schoolgirl -- https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iX5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uqMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3152%2C4802928
- The Murder of Linda Peacock: A Triumph for Forensic Odontologyby Det. Chief Supt. William Muncie Lanarkshire Constabulary -- http://pjx.sagepub.com/content/41/7/319.abstract
- See also Classic Scottish murder stories https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lMDLFqTkd7oC&pg=PT92&lpg=PT92&dq=%22garvie+case%22&source=bl&ots=u89qedDi6K&sig=_L79_jbtxoChKprTlUcZZHo3Lbg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw5fSVzafKAhXBXRQKHRUrAKMQ6AEINDAD#v=snippet&q=peacock&f=false
Murder of Maxwell Garvie -

1970 eln - Lac Edinb Pentlands, failed

1971-75 Scottish Law Commission full-time

1971-7 Committee on criminal Procedure in Scotland

1973-75 Committee on the preapartion of legislation^[1]

75 -- Senator of the College of Justice -- oath admin by Lord Emslie

76-82 chair of the Court of Stirling University

1977 -- committee on alternatives to prosecution

30 Sept 1986 - retired as judge, succeeded by Lord Prosser

died 31 March in Murrayfield hosp in Edinb aged 63

-- --- tributes

Len Murray QC -- one of the sharper forensic brains of his time

1987 - "nimble mind in inverse proportion to his modest height" - from Fairbairn "a life is too short" https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19871117&id=xjY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=NKYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4012,5018441&hl=en

References

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Legal offices
Preceded by Henry Wilson	Solicitor General for Scotland 1967–1970	Succeeded by David Brand

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