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The High Court is both a trial court and a court of appeal. 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 ...
Each court has its own jurisdiction and in many cases, a right of appeal lies from one to another. Courts apply Scots law. Criminal cases are prosecuted by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. and the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service. [1] Scotland's supreme criminal court is the High Court of Justiciary.
The trial began at the High Court in Glasgow in November 2023. [24] [25] On 14 December 2023, Robert O'Brien, aged 45, Andrew Kelly, 44, and Donna Marie Brand, also aged 44, were convicted of Glachan's murder at the High Court in Glasgow. All three had been teenagers at the time the crime was committed.
The trial of Tommy and Gail Sheridan started on 4 October 2010 at the Glasgow High Court, before Lord Bracadale, with a jury of thirteen women and two men. It concluded on 23 December. It concluded on 23 December.
The building was the venue for the preliminary hearing in the trial of the businessman, Craig Whyte, on fraud charges in March 2017. [9] He was referred for trial at Glasgow High Court but, after a lengthy legal proceedings, was acquitted of all charges in June 2017. [10] [11] [12]
The Service is led by a board which is chaired by the Lord President of the Court of Session, and employs over 1000 staff members in the country's 39 sheriff courts, 34 justice of the peace courts, the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary, and at the service's headquarters in Edinburgh. The day-to-day administration of the service ...
The Lord President of the Court of Session is the head of Scotland's judiciary and the presiding judge of the College of Justice (which consists of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary.) As of May 2016, the Lord President was Lord Carloway , who was appointed in December 2015 having previously served as Lord Justice Clerk .
Bryson's six-day trial was held in January 2023 at the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow. [17] The case was prosecuted by Advocate depute John Keenan and defended by Edward Targowski, while Lord Scott sat as presiding judge. The prosecution described how Bryson had "preyed on two vulnerable female partners" after meeting them online.