A claim for compensation for damages resulting from repeated acts of indecent exposure could properly be refused on the basis that the crime was not a crime of violence as such. The Board must consider in each case whether the act complained of was, in the ordinary and natural meaning of the words, a crime of violence.
Judges:
Lord Macfadyen
Citations:
Times 03-Jun-1999, 1999 SCLR 992, [1999] ScotCS 114
Links:
Statutes:
Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 1990
Personal Injury, Scotland
Updated: 05 June 2022; Ref: scu.169614
