News
Recruitment of advocate member
Advocates interested in assisting in the preparation of sentencing guidelines and the development of sentencing policy for the Scottish courts are being invited to apply to become the advocate member of the Scottish Sentencing Council.
Council holds follow-up webinar on sentencing young people guideline
The Scottish Sentencing Council and CYCJ are pleased to announce a follow-up to January's highly popular webinar on the Council’s guideline on sentencing young people, which stimulated a great deal of discussion both during the event and afterwards.
Lady Dorrian announced as RSE Fellow
The Chair of the Scottish Sentencing Council, Lady Dorrian, has been elected as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy.
Sentencing young people guideline comes into effect
A NEW sentencing guideline developed by the Scottish Sentencing Council comes into effect in all courts in Scotland today (Wednesday, 26 January 2022).
Council holds webinar on sentencing young people guideline
The Scottish Sentencing Council is pleased to announce that it will be holding a joint webinar with CYCJ on its new 'Sentencing young people’ guideline on 20 January 2022.