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Thread #73434 Message #1279194
Posted By: Tam the Bam (Nutter)
23-Sep-04 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK strange legal ways
Subject: RE: BS: UK strange legal ways
In Scotland we have an unequike Pardon the spelling, where we have three verdicts, Guilty, not Guilty and Not Proven. Not Proven means that person on trail is found not proven means they are set free however there are doubts as to weather they had done the crime or not. Scots Law is based on Roman law. We have a jury of 15 people and sometimes we have tryals where 3 judges sit and listen to the lawyers. we don't have crimnial courts we have sherriff courts and we don't call them judges we call them sherriffs, and we have a people call the proticatr fiscal, and unlike England if anything goes on in Scotland we have an enquray.