# Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, Section 36: Allocation of business to specialist judiciary


(1) Subsection (2) applies where the Lord President of the Court of Session or the sheriff principal of a sheriffdom is exercising any function relating to the allocation of business among the judiciary of a sheriffdom.
(2) The Lord President or, as the case may be, the sheriff principal must have regard to the desirability of ensuring that cases falling within a category determined under section 34 are dealt with by sheriffs, summary sheriffs, part-time sheriffs or, as the case may be, part-time summary sheriffs designated under section 35 as specialists in that category of case.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/18/section/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-36
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