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JUSTICIARY, HIGH COURT OF

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JUSTICIARY, HIGH See also:COURT OF , in See also:Scotland, the supreme criminal court, consisting of five of the lords of session together with the See also:lord See also:justice-See also:general and the lord justice-clerk as See also:president and See also:vice-president respectively. The constitution of the court is settled by the See also:Act 1672 c. 16. The lords of justiciary hold circuits regularly twice a See also:year according to the See also:ancient practice, which, however, had been allowed to fall into disuse until revived in 1748. For See also:circuit purposes Scotland is divided into See also:northern, See also:southern and western districts (see CIRCUIT). Two See also:judges generally go on a circuit, and in See also:Glasgow they are by See also:special See also:statute authorized to sit in See also:separate courts. By the Criminal See also:Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887 all the senators of the See also:college of justice are lords commissioners of justiciary. The high court, sitting in See also:Edinburgh, has, in addition to its general See also:jurisdiction, an exclusive jurisdiction for districts not within the jurisdiction of the circuits—the three Lothians, and See also:Orkney and See also:Shetland. The high court also takes up points of difficulty arising before the special courts, like the court for See also:crown cases reserved in See also:England. The court of justiciary has authority to try all crimes, unless when its jurisdiction has been excluded by special enactment of the legislature. It is also stated to have an inherent jurisdiction to punish all criminal acts, even if they have never before been treated as crimes. Its judgments are believed to be not subject to any See also:appeal or See also:review, but it may be doubted whether an appeal on a point of See also:law would not See also:lie to the See also:house of lords.

The following crimes must be prosecuted in the court of justiciary: See also:

treason, See also:murder, See also:robbery, See also:rape, See also:fire-raising, deforcement of messengers, See also:breach of See also:duty by magistrates, and all offences for which a statutory See also:punishment higher than imprisonment is imposed.

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