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    High Court of Justiciary (Scottish Gaelic: Àrd-chùirt a' Cheartais) is the supreme criminal court in Scotland. The High Court is both a trial court and...
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    who is the president of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary. The Court of Session has the authority, under the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act...
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    The Aberdeen Sheriff Court Annex and High Court of Justiciary, also known as Mercatgate, is a judicial building in Castle Street, Aberdeen, Scotland. The...
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    types of senator: Lords of Session (judges of the Court of Session); Lords Commissioners of Justiciary (judges of the High Court of Justiciary); and the...
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    Court of Justice in Northern Ireland High courts of Pakistan, several courts High Court of Cassation and Justice (Romania) High Court of Justiciary (Scotland)...
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    supreme courts are the Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary, the Office of the Accountant of Court, and the Auditor of the Court of Session...
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    23 May 2008. The Supreme Courts are made up of the Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary and the Accountant of Court's Office Section 4, Judicial...
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    Scots law (redirect from Law of Scotland)
    Appeal Court, and decisions of the Sheriff Appeal Court can only be appealed with leave to the High Court of Justiciary and then only on questions of law...
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    exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of Justiciary. Though the sheriff courts have concurrent jurisdiction with the High Court over armed robbery, drug...
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    court of Scotland is the High Court of Justiciary. The Court of Session sits in Parliament House in Edinburgh and is both a trial court and a court of...
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    The Scottish court in the Netherlands was a special sitting of the High Court of Justiciary set up under Scots law in a former United States Air Force...
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    Street, marking the end of the Lawnmarket, the High Court of Justiciary, Scotland's supreme criminal court, is housed in the Justiciary Building. On the south...
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    judge of the College of Justice, the Court of Session, and the High Court of Justiciary. The Lord President holds the title of Lord Justice General of Scotland...
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    to the direction of the Principal Clerk of Justiciary, arranges sittings of the High Court of Justiciary. At trials in the High Court in Edinburgh, the...
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    Procurator fiscal (category Prosecution services of the United Kingdom)
    called a bill for criminal letters, where a victim of a crime can petition the High Court of Justiciary for permission ('to pass the bill') to prosecute;...
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    Edinburgh and Aberdeen, is dedicated for the use of the High Court of Justiciary, which is the supreme criminal court in Scotland. It is a Category A listed building...
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    The Principal Clerk of Session and Justiciary is the clerk of court responsible for the administration of the Supreme Courts of Scotland and their associated...
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    Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service. Scotland's supreme criminal court is the High Court of Justiciary and the Court of Session is the supreme civil court. Supreme...
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    in the country's 39 sheriff courts, 34 justice of the peace courts, the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary, and at the service's headquarters...
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    is the lord president of the Court of Session, who also holds the post of lord justice-general in the High Court of Justiciary. The equivalent in Northern...
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  • heard as though in the Appellate division of the High Court of Justiciary (commonly known as the Court of Criminal Appeal). Junior counsel is more likely...
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    Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (or before 1 October 2009, the House of Lords). The High Court of Justiciary is the supreme criminal court in Scotland...
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  • Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    Scottish High Court of Justiciary judge who contributed greatly to Scots law. Robertson was born on 30 October 1912 in Edinburgh, the youngest of the six...
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    various Acts of Adjournal passed by the High Court of Justiciary. Juries in these cases consist of 15 people; if jurors drop out e.g. because of illness the...
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    2020. "Court of Session – Introduction". Scottish Courts. Retrieved 5 October 2008. "High Court of Justiciary – Introduction". Scottish Courts. Retrieved...
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  • Isla Bryson case (category High Court of Justiciary cases)
    excluding them. Bryson's six-day trial was held in January 2023 at the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow. The case was prosecuted by Advocate depute John Keenan...
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  • Powers Tribunal. Courts of record are not defined in Scots law. However, both the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session keep record of all proceedings...
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    the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary – section 25A(8) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 – as are reflected in the Rules of Conduct...
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    College of Justice (which consists of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary.) As of May 2016, the Lord President was Lord Carloway, who was appointed...
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    supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly...
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