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The Council has brought together comprehensive and easy to read information on sentencing practice in a bid to demystify the sentencing process in Scotland.

Lord Carloway, the Lord President, spoke yesterday of the Council’s role in sentencing when he delivered the speech, 'Imprisonment in Scotland: towards a penological post-modernism’ to the Scottish Universities Insight Institute.

Council member Allan Findlay has been appointed as one of Scotland’s first summary sheriffs.

Secondary legislation is now in place requiring the Council to submit a three-year Business Plan to the Scottish Parliament. 

Lord Turnbull, the senator member of the Council, will chair future meetings until a new Lord Justice Clerk is appointed.