LegalizeCriminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975
Part I — Solemn Procedure
Jurisdiction
Application of Part I of this Act
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Jurisdiction and powers of courts of solemn jurisdiction
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Jurisdiction of sheriff
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Boundaries of jurisdiction
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Procedure in case of crime in different districts
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Jurisdiction and procedure in respect of certain indictable offences committed abroad
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Theft outside Scotland
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Trial of certain crimes and offences in sheriff court
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Instructions by Lord Advocate as to reporting offences
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Intimation of proceedings in High Court to Lord Advocate
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Procedure after intimation Procedure Prior to Trial
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Procedure prior to Trial
Arrest, Judicial Examination, Custody, Bail, Etc
Petitions for warrants
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Warrants for arrest of escaped prisoners and mental patients
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Warrant to search for or remove a child
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Sheriff's warrant may be executed out of district
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Backing of certain warrants from the Isle of Man
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- (1) A warrant issued in the Isle of Man for the arrest of a person charged with an offence may, after it has been endorsed by a justice in Scotland, be executed there by the person bringing that warrant, by any person to whom the warrant was originally directed or by any officer of law of the sheriff court district where the warrant has been endorsed as aforesaid in like manner as any such warrant issued in Scotland.
- (2) In this section “endorsed” means endorsed in the like manner as a process to which section 4 of the Summary Jurisdiction (Process) Act 1881 applies.
Execution of Scottish warrants in England and vice versa
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Power of constable to take offenders into custody
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Prisoners before examination to have access to solicitor
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Accused at examination need not emit a declaration
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Examination of accused on charges arising in different districts
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Committal until liberation in due course of law
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Remand and committal of persons under 21
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Committal of children to custody in place of safety
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Power of court to commit to hospital a person suffering from mental disorder
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Bail competent before committal
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Renewal of application for bail after committal
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Admission or refusal of bail after committal
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Amount of bail
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Application for review of court's decision on bail and caution
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Appeal in respect of bail
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No fees exigible against accused in respect of application for bail
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Liberation of applicant when appeal by public prosecutor
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Power of court to refund bail
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Right of Lord Advocate and High Court to admit a person to bail
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Citation of persons liberated on bail at domiciles specified in bail bonds
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Power to order parent to give security for child's good behaviour
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Separation of children from adults at courts, etc.
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Attendance at court of parent of child charged with an offence, etc.
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Notice to local authority of charge against a child
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The Indictment
Indictment forms
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Procedure on resignation, death or removal of Lord Advocate
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Naming of accused
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Nomen juris unnecessary
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Case of two or more persons charged
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" Guilty, actor or art and part " unnecessary
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" All which or part " implied
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Qualifying words to be implied
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Quotation of statutes unnecessary
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Latitude as to time and place
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Latitude as to quantities, persons, things or modes
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Description of buildings, goods, money or other property
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Description of persons, goods, etc.
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" Money" to include coin, bank notes and post office orders
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Setting forth documents unnecessary
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Declarations, etc. not averred
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Indictments, etc., written or printed or partly so
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Authentication of alterations to indictment, etc.
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Reset
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Robbery, etc., to include reset, theft to include breach of trust, etc.
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Procedure where more than one crime charged
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Mode of charging certain offences committed against two or more children under 17
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Attempt at crime
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Statutory offences which are offences at common law
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Superfluous particulars as to identity
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Proof of exceptions, qualifications, etc.
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Offence committed in special capacity
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Notice of previous convictions
Notice of previous convictions
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Citation of Accused, Witnesses and Jurors
Warrants for citation
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Service of indictment and list of witnesses
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Manner of service of indictment, etc.
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Officers may cite jurors and witnesses, without witnesses and oath of officer sufficient evidence of citation
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Execution of citation of indictment
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Proceedings against bodies corporate
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Fixing the Diets
Two diets
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Notice for first diet
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Alteration of diet
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Lodging of List of Witnesses, Productions, Special Defence, Etc
Record copy indictment and list of witnesses
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Description of witnesses
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Objection to witnesses
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Examination by prosecutor of witnesses, etc., not included in lists lodged
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Written notice of special defence and examination of witnesses and productions not included in lists lodged
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Accused entitled to see productions
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Proof as to productions
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Preparation of Jury List, etc.
Forty-five jurors to be returned for trials
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Jurors for High Court at Edinburgh
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Jurors for High Court when on circuit
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Area from which jury summoned to circuit court
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When the High Court shall exercise its power of holding a court in any town which may be most convenient for the trial of any crime in or near the locality in which such crime has been committed, and where such town is not one of the towns in which the High Court usually sits, the jury summoned to try such case shall be summoned from the general jury roll of the sheriff court district in which such town is situated.
Jurors in inferior courts
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Order in which names of jurors are to be taken
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Names of jurors dying or becoming disqualified to be passed over in making returns of jurors
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Jurors as returned to serve on trials
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Names of jurors to be inserted in one roll
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One list of assize sufficient for all trials at the same diet in High Court
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No irregularity in lists, etc., to be an objection to jurors
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Notice of jury list
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Sufficient jurors only to be summoned
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Jurors to be cited by registered letter or recorded delivery
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Fining of jurors for non-attendance
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No exemptions by sex or marriage from liability to serve as juror
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Delay in trial
Prevention of delay in trials
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Accelerated Trial
Procedure where accused desires to plead guilty
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First Diet
Sheriff court case
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Remit to High Court for sentence
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High Court case
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Power to convict on plea of guilty to offence other than that charged in indictment
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If a person charged on indictment with any crime or offence tenders a plea of guilty of any other crime or offence of which he could competently, by virtue of any enactment, be found guilty on the trial of such indictment, and if the plea is accepted by the prosecutor it shall be competent to convict such person of the crime or offence to which he has so pled guilty and to sentence him accordingly.
Solicitor of place of second diet may defend at both diets
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In all cases a solicitor who is entitled to conduct proceedings in the courts of the district of the second diet shall be entitled to appear at the first diet and to conduct the defence, although he may not be entitled to conduct other law business in the locality of the first diet.
Certain objections competent only at first diet
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Interlocutor of relevancy unnecessary
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Where sentence delayed, original warrant of commitment stands
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Postponement on old warrant where diet deserted
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Sittings of High Court
Sittings of Court of Justiciary
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Judges in High Court
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Power to High Court to determine circuits, etc.
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Sitting dispensed with
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Adjournment of second diet
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When the accused who is cited to the High Court for the second diet has pleaded guilty at the first diet, it shall be lawful for any Lord Commissioner of Justiciary in chambers, and without the presence of the prosecutor or person accused, to adjourn the second diet to any other sitting of the High Court.
Sitting transferred where few cases
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- (1) Where so many of the persons who have been indicted for any sitting of the High Court have pleaded guilty at the first diet as to make the holding of a separate court for the cases remaining unnecessary, it shall be lawful for any Lord Commissioner of Justiciary, on the petition of the Lord Advocate, and in chambers and without the presence of the prosecutor or the accused, to order the second diets of such cases to be postponed and to be held at any other sitting of the High Court which is about to be held.
- (2) Upon such order for postponement being issued, a notice shall forthwith be served upon the accused, who may have already been cited, in the form set out in Schedule 0 to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887 or in an Act of Adjournal under this Act or as nearly as may be in such form.
Trial on adjacent circuit
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Where any crime is committed in a circuit district in which no sitting of the High Court falls to be held in ordinary course for some months thereafter, it shall be competent to cite the accused to appear before any earlier sitting of the High Court in an adjacent circuit district.
Place of certain trials
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Where, because of the distance of any burgh or town from the town in which the High Court usually sits, or for any other cause, it shall be deemed expedient that trials of persons accused of crimes committed in such burgh or town, or in places adjacent thereto, should be tried there instead of being tried at the town in which the court usually sits, it shall be lawful for the High Court at Edinburgh, on the application of the Lord Advocate, to give all such directions in that behalf as the said court shall think fit; and the sheriff of the sheriff court district within which such burgh or town is situated shall give obedience to all directions so given.
Notification after first diet of intention to plead guilty
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Procedure at Trial
Second diet-Transcript of procedure at first diet
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