Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
2014 asp 18
The Act
Part 1 - Sheriff Courts
Chapter 3 — Organisation of business
Judicial specialisation
Section 36 – Allocation of business to specialist judiciary
65.Section 36 places a duty on both the Lord President and the sheriff principal of a sheriffdom, when allocating business within a sheriffdom, to have regard to the desirability of ensuring that cases which fall within the specialist categories are dealt with by judicial officers who are designated as specialists in those categories.
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