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A sheriff court (Scottish Gaelic: Cùirt an t-Siorraim) is the principal local civil and criminal court in Scotland, with exclusive jurisdiction over all civil cases with a monetary value up to £100,000, and with the jurisdiction to hear any criminal case except treason, murder, and rape, which are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of Justiciary.
The European Court of Human Rights is not related to the European Union and continues to have jurisdiction to hear cases from Scotland, but its powers are essentially advisory. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is, in practice, a court of the United Kingdom.
The Sheriff Personal Injury Court is a Scottish court with exclusive competence over claims relating to personal injury where the case is for a work-related accident claim in excess of £1,000, where the total amount claimed is in excess of £5,000, or where a sheriff in a local sheriff court remits proceedings to the Personal Injury Court.
All judgments of the Sheriff Appeal Court in civil cases establish binding precedent on all sheriffs and in all sheriffdoms throughout Scotland. [3]: 7, 16 [4] [5]: Section 39 [14] The civil jurisdiction of the Sheriff Appeal Court was established on 1 January 2016. [11]
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The Scots Law Times is a commercially published law reports service and law magazine for Scotland, publishing over 1400 pages of reports each year.Published weekly during court term by W. Green, the Scots Law Times covers every Scottish court, civil and criminal, from the Sheriff Courts to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (formerly the House of Lords).
Sheriff Peter Paterson told Hogg the sentence was an alternative to custody. The payback order will be reviewed for compliance on 25 March at Jedburgh Sheriff Court.
The Court of Session and sheriff courts have a co-extensive jurisdiction for all cases with a monetary value in excess of £100,000, with the choice of court being given in the first place to the pursuer (the claimant), the majority of difficult or high-value cases in Scotland are brought in the Court of Session. Any final decision of a sheriff ...