SCTS News

Following the recommendation from Lady Dorrian’s Restarting Solemn Trials Working Group, plans to conduct High Court Trials using Remote Jury Centres based in selected ODEON cinema complexes are well on track. The first trials will get underway on 28 September in Edinburgh (Fort Kinnaird) and from 12 October in Glasgow (Braehead, Renfrewshire).

From Monday 14 September, all Tayside, Central and Fife courts will be publishing daily times for remand court cases to call.

Alloa, Dumfries, Falkirk, Greenock, Oban and Stirling Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Courts, Lochgilphead Justice of the Peace Court, and The Office for the Public Guardian will be closed for local public holidays on Monday 7 September.

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service quarterly statistical bulletin is published today providing quarterly Official Statistics on criminal case activity in Scotland.