A new Practice Note (No. 1 of 2025) which will apply to summary case management across all sheriff courts has been published (all-scotland-scm-pn.pdf). The schedule sets out the dates upon which the new approach will apply to each local court.
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To coincide with the expansion of Summary Case Management to non-domestic abuse cases from Tuesday, 14 January 2025, and the publication of the All Scotland Practice Note 1 of 2025, a workshop will be held on Thursday, 16 January 2025 within Court 8 at Glasgow Sheriff and JP Court between 4.00 and 5.00pm.
An invitation is extended to members of the judiciary, the defence bar and staff of both COPFS and SCTS to attend.. Presentations will be given by Fraser Gibson and Jennifer Cunningham - COPFS, CI Eddie Seery and CI Brian Fraser - Police Scotland and Neil Christie - Sheriff Clerk.
An outline of the agenda is noted below.
Workshop – 4.00 – 5.00 pm
Review of SCM in DA courts at Glasgow
Overview of PN 1 of 2025
Overview of changes to court programme
Overview of SCM in non-DA cases and process at first calling
Overview of different disclosure processes for DA and non-DA SCM cases
Egress
Q&A
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