College of Justice
College of Justice | |
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Lord Carloway | |
Since | 2015 |
Jurist term ends | 2029 |
Lord Justice Clerk and President of the Second Division of the Inner House | |
Currently | The Rt Hon Lady Dorrian |
Since | 2016 |
Jurist term ends | 2032 |
The College of Justice (
The constituent bodies of the national supreme courts are the Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary, the Office of the Accountant of Court, and the Auditor of the Court of Session.[2][3][4] Its associated bodies are the Faculty of Advocates, the Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet and the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland.
The College is headed by the
History
The College was founded in 1532 by
The Parliament of Scotland passed an Act on 17 May 1532 authorising the creation of the college with 14 members, half spiritual, half temporal, plus a president and the Lord Chancellor. The college convened for the first time on 27 May 1532, in the royal presence.
Supplementing the 14 ordinary lords, who were called Senators, were an indefinite number of supernumerary judges called extraordinary lords.
The founding members of the College of Justice were:
- The Lord Chancellor, Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow
- The Lord President, Alexander Myln, Abbot of Cambuskenneth
- Richard Bothwell, Rector of Ashkirk
- John Dingwall, Provost of Trinity College
- Henry White, Rector of Finevin
- William Gibson, Dean of Restalrig
- Thomas Hay, Dean of Dunbar
- Robert Reid, Abbot of Kinloss
- George Ker, Provost of Dunglass
- Sir William Scott of Balweary
- Henry Lauder, Lord St Germains, King's Advocate[6]
- John Campbell of Lundy
- Easter Wemyss
- Sir Advocate
- Nicholas Crawford of Oxengangs
- Francis Bothwell of Edinburgh (brother of Richard)
- James Lawson of Edinburgh
- Sir James Foulis of Colinton, who was added at the first meeting of the court when the king made him a "Lord of the Session".
The College at its foundation dealt with underdeveloped
Initially, there was little legal literature.
The
See also
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- Senator of the College of Justice
- Historic List of Senators of the College of Justice
- Extraordinary Lord of Session
- Principal Clerk of Session and Justiciary
References
- ^ "Judicial Appointments - How are judges appointed?". Judiciary of Scotland. Edinburgh: Judicial Office for Scotland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- Scottish Court Service, accessed 12 March 2007
- ^ "Expenses and Funding of Litigation Bill | Auditor of Court Provisions" (PDF). scottishciviljusticecouncil.gov.uk. Scottish Civil Justice Council. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
- ^ "Court of Session Act 1821", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1821 c. 38
- ^ The 1531 bull stipulated that of the senators "media pars in dignitate ecclesiastica constituta omnino esse debeat"; a March 1534 bull of Pope Paul III added "pro uno Presidente semper prelate ecclesiastico". Baird Smith, David (1912), "The Reformers and divorce", The Scottish Historical Review, 9: 12–13
- ^ "One of the nine advocates appointed at the institution of the College of Justice. Dalrymple of Hailes, Bt., Sir David, An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice of Scotland from its Institution, Edinburgh, 1849, p.63.
External links
- Supreme Courts Archived 6 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the National Archives of Scotland