Explanatory Notes

Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014

2014 asp 18

10 November 2014

The Act

Part 2 - Sheriff Appeal Court

Chapter 3 - Organisation of business
Sittings
Section 58 – Rehearing of pending case by a larger Court

96.Section 58 provides for the Appeal Sheriffs to determine that a case be reheard by a fuller bench of the Sheriff Appeal Court in circumstances where they are equally divided or where they consider the matter to merit such treatment.