The 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...
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courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom serves as...
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Northern Ireland, but only for civil cases in Scotland. The High Court of Justiciary remains the court of last resort in Scotland for criminal cases. The Supreme...
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courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom serves as...
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Italy after the failed theft of the Coronation egg in Twelve, the local justiciary hands them over to an American official demanding their extradition. It...
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Smart v HM Advocate (category High Court of Justiciary cases)
law case relating to consent as a defence to assault. The High Court of Justiciary held that if the assault was made with an evil intent, consent could not...
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able to control entry to their own ranks. In 1672, the High Court of Justiciary was founded from the College of Justice as a supreme court of appeal....
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included Senator of the College of Justice and George Commissioner of Justiciary in Scotland. Tytler was a friend of Robert Burns, and prevailed upon him...
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as his test subjects. The doctor takes the Daltons to a farm to be in a better environment for treatment. Lucky Luke has to watch them. Nevertheless, the...
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tower. In 1814 the corporation vacated the Tolbooth and moved to the new Justiciary Buildings on Saltmarket, overlooking Glasgow Green. The building served...
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friendships with politicians, police officers and senior members of the justiciary, and wrote of his fears that more will emerge about Paton that will show...
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procurator fiscal or Lord Advocate through a sheriff court or High Court of Justiciary. Cash forfeiture and civil recovery are brought by the Civil Recovery...
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the judicial title of Lord Minto) from 1726 to 1733, as a Lord of the Justiciary from 1733 to 1765 and as Lord Justice Clerk from 1763 to 1766. His eldest...
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known better as Ronnie Corbett Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) Karen Dunbar (born 1971) Craig Ferguson (born 1962) Gregor Fisher (born 1953), known better as the...
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solicitors with rights of audience in the Court of Session or High Court of Justiciary were permitted to apply for appointment, and two or three have done so...
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Commissioners of Justiciary, and Barons of Exchequer in Scotland, as relates to the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, and Exchequer...
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water it until New Year's Day. The nicer the wheat looks that day, the better the year to come. On Saint Andrew's Day in 1806, Serbs liberated Belgrade...
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Courts (List) Supreme Courts of Scotland (Court of Session, High Court of Justiciary, Office of the Accountant of Court) Crown Office Lord Advocate Lord President...
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Lothian). The court consisted of three judges from the High Court of Justiciary (Scotland's highest criminal court), of whom Tinwald (Justice Clerk) was...
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Calvinist in doctrine, and viewed many Church of England practices as little better than Catholicism. As a result, attempts to impose religious policy by James...
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the Attendance of Noblemen, Barons, and Freeholders, upon the Lords of Justiciary, in their Circuits, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland; and...
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High Court of Justiciary (Scotland) Act 1892 55 & 56 Vict. c. 21 20 June 1892 An Act to regulate the sittings of the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland...
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Meechan's lawyer Dorothy Bain subsequently petitioned the High Court of Justiciary to hear the case. Senior judge Lord Carloway opined that the High Court...
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of Justiciary (Scotland) Act 1864 27 & 28 Vict. c. 30 23 June 1864 An Act to provide for the Alteration of the Circuits of the Court of Justiciary in...
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session and justiciary as Lord Meadowbank 1819, and resigned in 1843. With the same title as his father, he was subject of one of Scots law's better puns. When...
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Westminster Hall, and also of the lords of session, lords commissioners of justiciary, and barons of exchequer, in Scotland; and for enabling his Majesty to...
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and Sex Offender Register after pleading guilty at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh to various sex offences, including attempted rape, committed...
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Criminal Law. Justiciary (Scotland) Act 1848 11 & 12 Vict. c. 79 31 August 1848 An Act to facilitate and simplify Procedure in the Court of Justiciary in Scotland...
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feudal controls by Highland chiefs. This was far more significant than the better-known Act of Proscription which outlawed Highland dress unless worn in military...
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Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists;" and for vesting in the Lords of Justiciary Power to inflict the same Punishments against Jesuits, Priests and other...
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