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[9] [10] The complex also continued to serve as the local sheriff court throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. In 2002, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service acquired County Buildings and implemented a major programme of refurbishment works which involved the conversion of County Buildings to create a second courtroom.
From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the hereditary sheriffs were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar. The sheriffdom of Lanarkshire was dissolved in 1975 when it was replaced by the current sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.
The sheriff deputes, who were paid a salary by the Crown, were qualified advocates and took charge of sheriff courts. [2] By the nineteenth century, the office of sheriff principal was an additional title held by the lord lieutenant of the county , and the Circuit Courts (Scotland) Act 1828 ( 9 Geo. 4 .
The complex continued to serve as the local sheriff court throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. [8] However, a new building known as Birnie House in Caird Street, was acquired in 2006 to deal with civil and family cases, allowing the Almada Street / Beckford Street building to focus on criminal cases. [ 9 ]
Sheriff officers have been under the control of the local Sheriff for centuries. The office of sheriff officer is thought to be one of the oldest in the Scottish legal system, and may derive from the pre-feudal office of mair (an official who attended a sheriff for arrestment or executions). [3]
A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated. There is an analogous, although independently developed, office in Iceland , the sýslumaður , which is commonly translated to English as sheriff .
Then in December, a sheriff’s deputy responding to a domestic violence call in Lancaster shot and killed Niani Finlayson in front of her 9-year-old daughter. That same month, Finlayson’s ...
(1) The office of sheriff (that is to say, the office known formerly as the office of sheriff depute, but known immediately before the commencement of this Act as the office of sheriff) shall be known as the office of sheriff principal, the office of sheriff substitute shall be known as the office of sheriff, and the office of honorary sheriff ...