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The local registrar's office moved from County Buildings to Lerwick Town Hall in February 2015. [11] The building continues to serve as the venue for sheriff court hearings in the area, [12] although, due to staffing issues with the escort services, hearings involving juries were moved to the mainland in July 2023. [13] [14]
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.
[2] The Court of Session is the supreme Scottish civil court [3] but UK-wide courts can review decisions of great public or constitutional importance. Scots law is developed and interpreted by the courts of Scotland, particularly the supreme courts.
The court heard Stroud, of Eastcote Terrace, Walker, Newcastle, had no previous convictions while Lopes, of Archer Street, Byker, had previously attacked lone people with his gang and Tams, of ...
Stines, 44, was indicted on one count of murder of a public official after video footage captured him aiming a gun at District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, inside the jurist's office on Sept. 19, 2024.
A 31-year-old man has appeared in private at Jedburgh Sheriff Court charged with murder. It follows the discovery of a woman's body at a property in Chirnside during the early hours of Sunday.
At the fatal accident inquiry at Lerwick Sheriff Court in August 1999, Sheriff Colin Scott Mackenzie concluded that "unnecessary and cumulative delays by the captain and 14 crew of the Bahamian-registered ship were largely to blame for Mr Deacon's death". [11] In 2005, a new shore facility was opened at the Old Tolbooth. [12]
The two men were friends, local residents say, and Stines served as a bailiff in Mullins' court for several years before being elected sheriff in 2018. Wilhoit allowed the case to move forward to ...