SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The criminal procedure of precognition was and is the practice of taking of statements from witnesses by or on behalf of the local public prosecutor in place of or in addition to those statements provided by the police. That suggests strongly a different basis to practice from that in accusatorial systems. Precognitions constituted a preliminary sift of the evidence and the reporting of the results to independent lawyers for instructions was an unequivocal indication of decision-making within a hierarchical system. The administrative action of issuing written rules of practice to local public prosecutors in 1868 consolidated the existing procedure.
Publication Date
2015-01-01
Publication Title
SOLON Law, Crime and History
Volume
5
Issue
2
First Page
29
Last Page
43
ISSN
2045-9238
Deposit Date
April 2017
Embargo Period
2024-10-22
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Shiels, Robert S.
(2015)
"The Crown Practice of Precognition in Mid-Victorian Scotland,"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 5:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol5/iss2/2
