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June 19

Certiorari in Scotland

If someone is convicted of a crime under Scots law and wishes to appeal it, what do we call the document that he or his lawyer will file, comparable to a writ of certiorari in common-law anglophone jurisdictions? I ran across [1], which clearly says that there is no certiorari concept in Scots law (one existed from 1707 but was abolished in the mid-19th century), but the article doesn't appear to address what takes the place of this concept, or what's closest. Google searches for <certiorari scotland> are almost entirely false positives, either pages missing one word or the other, or things that mention both words in another context, e.g. the certiorari reference in United States v. Scotland Neck Board of Education. Nyttend (talk) 22:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See the links under "How do I appeal?" at Scottish Courts website - criminal. DuncanHill (talk) 22:45, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]