Explanatory Notes

Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004

2004 asp 3

14 April 2004

Commentary on Sections

Part 2 – Civil Proceedings

Section 20 – Live television link

82.This section allows witnesses to give evidence by live TV link. Subsection (1) imposes a duty on the court to make suitable arrangements for the evidence of a vulnerable witness to be given from outside the courtroom by a live television link. Subsection (2) allows the sheriff to transfer a case in which it is intended that a live television link be used from a sheriff court that does not have either the suitable accommodation or equipment to another court in the same sheriffdom that does.