Court Opinions - Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary
Court of Session opinions from January 1998 are available. New opinions will be published here as they become available.
Criminal opinions of the High Court of Justiciary, including opinions in some sentence appeals, are available.
These pages will be updated at approximately 2.00 pm on any day on which new opinions are to be published.If you have any comments or suggestions on the way the court judgments have been presented on these pages or on the method of searching the judgments, please send an email message to opinions@scotcourts.gov.uk
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- Keyword Search
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The Neutral Citation search will search the full text of all the opinions that have been published on the Internet for the citation number that you enter. Please Note* This is a text search which may occasionally not return the document sought.
- Structured Search
For the structured search we have categorised the opinions by type, date, name of judge or judges, pursuer/appellant, defender/respondent and type of action, and you can search for opinions within these categories. You can view a list of the types of action that are available.
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