Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Act 2025
Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 14)
- Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 14)
- Part 1 Criminal justice modernisation
- Modernisation of criminal procedures
- 1 Electronic signatures and alternative methods of sending documents
- 2 Virtual attendance at court
- 3 Review of virtual attendance provisions
- 4 Sections 1 and 2: transitional provisions and interpretation
- 5 Digital productions
- 6 Authentication of electronic copy documents
- 7 Body-worn video evidence
- Fixed penalties
- 8 Increase of fixed penalty limit
- National jurisdiction for custody cases
- 9 National jurisdiction for custody cases in sheriff courts and JP courts
- 10 Section 9: transitional provision
- Amendment of indictment
- 11 Addition of charge to indictment
- Part 2 Domestic homicide and suicide reviews
- Reviewable events
- 12 Domestic homicide or suicide review
- 13 Power to modify matters in relation to reviews
- Review infrastructure
- 14 Review oversight committee
- 15 Case review panels
- 16 Committee and panels: further provision
- Notification of potentially reviewable deaths
- 17 Notification of deaths
- 18 Revocation of notification
- Sift stage
- 19 Determination as to whether to hold a review
- 20 Determination as to whether to expand the remit of a review
- 21 Reconsideration of whether to hold a review
- Conduct of reviews
- 22 Carrying out of review
- 23 Lord Advocate’s power to order suspension or discontinuation of review proceedings
- 24 Protocol in relation to interaction with criminal investigations etc.
- 25 Duty on designated core participants to co-operate
- 26 Provision of information
- Reporting
- 27 Reports on case reviews: content and preparation
- 28 Reports on case reviews: publication and sharing
- 29 Requirement to respond to report recommendations
- 30 Periodic reports
- Guidance
- 31 Guidance by the Scottish Ministers
- Part 3 Final provisions
- 32 Regulation-making powers
- 33 Ancillary provision
- 34 Commencement
- 35 Short title
- Schedule Domestic homicide and suicide reviews: public appointments
- Offices to which this schedule applies
- Status
- Criteria for appointment
- Tenure
- Early termination
- Remuneration and allowances
- Other terms and conditions
- Validity of things done
- Review oversight committee: appointment of temporary chair
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