Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18)

Yn ddilys o 12/03/2015

PART 1 S SHERIFF COURTS

Yn ddilys o 01/04/2015

CHAPTER 3 S ORGANISATION OF BUSINESS

Judicial specialisation S

36 Allocation of business to specialist judiciary S

(1) Subsection (2) applies where the Lord President of the Court of Session or the sheriff principal of a sheriffdom is exercising any function relating to the allocation of business among the judiciary of a sheriffdom.

(2) The Lord President or, as the case may be, the sheriff principal must have regard to the desirability of ensuring that cases falling within a category determined under section 34 are dealt with by sheriffs, summary sheriffs, part-time sheriffs or, as the case may be, part-time summary sheriffs designated under section 35 as specialists in that category of case.