Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975

229Certificate by judge that case appealable

(1)The certificate of the judge who presided at the trial that a case is a fit case for appeal shall be in the form set out in an Act of Adjournal under the [1926 c. 15.] Criminal Appeal (Scotland) Act 1926 or under this Act or as nearly as may be in such form.

(2)The trial judge may, in any case in which he considers it desirable to do so, inform the person convicted before him or sentenced by him that the case is, in his opinion, one fit for an appeal to the High Court under section 228(b) of this Act, and may give to such person a certificate to that effect.