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The Council has launched a new resource which brings together guideline judgments issued by the High Court, along with helpful summaries and a selected list of other useful opinions.

The new Council Chair, Lady Dorrian, has been installed as the first female Lord Justice Clerk at a ceremony held at Parliament House.

Lady Dorrian QC has been appointed as the new Lord Justice Clerk which, by virtue of the office, makes her the new Chair of the Council.

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.