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The court deals with both criminal and civil cases. There are currently twenty-eight sheriffs in post at Glasgow Sheriff Court (five of whom are floating sheriffs). They sit alone in civil cases and are assisted by a jury of fifteen members selected from the electoral roll in some criminal cases (cases involving solemn proceedings only).
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (formerly the House of Lords, whose decisions are still binding).; Prior to the British exit from the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had exclusive jurisdiction over the interpretation of European law.
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.
Cheyenne Naeb, an American philosophy student at the University of Dundee, who pushed a female member of railway staff in front of a stationary train at Glasgow Queen Street railway station in February 2023 after missing his train, is sentenced to 20 months in prison at Glasgow Sheriff Court. [251]
A man has been arrested after his car damaged several police vehicles during a near two-mile pursuit in Glasgow. Detectives said the suspect, 34, failed to stop on Saracen Street, Possil, when ...
A sheriffdom is a judicial district in Scotland, led by a sheriff principal.Since 1 January 1975, there have been six sheriffdoms. Each sheriffdom is divided into a series of sheriff court districts, and each sheriff court is presided over by a resident or floating sheriff (a legally qualified judge).
The sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin maintains a single Sheriff Court based in Glasgow. The Sheriff Principal, usually a King's Counsel (KC), is appointed by the King on the recommendation of the First Minister, who receives recommendations from the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. They must have been qualified as an advocate or ...
As a trial court, the High Court sits on circuit at Parliament House or in the adjacent former Sheriff Court building in the Old Town in Edinburgh, or in dedicated buildings in Glasgow and Aberdeen. The High Court sometimes sits in various smaller towns in Scotland, where it uses the local sheriff court building. As an appeal court, the High ...