"The Emerging Authority of Crown Office in the Imperial Age: A Discussi" by Robert S. Shiels
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SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Although Crown Office is central to the Scottish criminal justice system there has been little modern study of the history of the department and no attempt to locate it within the Scottish constitutional arrangements. Consideration is given here to the evolution of the administrative headquarters of the public prosecution system from the mid-Victorian era when great cohesion was brought to the system through to the statutory intervention of 1927 that consolidated the independent position of the local public prosecutor albeit subject to Crown Office direction.

Publication Date

2018-01-01

Publication Title

SOLON Law, Crime and History

Volume

8

Issue

1

First Page

126

Last Page

144

ISSN

2045-9238

Deposit Date

June 2016

Embargo Period

2024-10-29

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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