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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-48",
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  "legislation": "asp/2014/18",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Status of decisions of the Sheriff Appeal Court in precedent",
  "text": "(1) A decision of the Sheriff Appeal Court on the interpretation or application of the law is binding—\n(a) in proceedings before a sheriff anywhere in Scotland,\n(b) in proceedings before a justice of the peace court anywhere in Scotland,\n(c) in proceedings before the Sheriff Appeal Court, except in a case where the Court hearing the proceedings is constituted by a greater number of Appeal Sheriffs than those constituting the Court which made the decision.\n(2) In subsection (1)(a), the reference to proceedings before a sheriff includes, in the case of criminal proceedings, a reference to solemn proceedings before a sheriff and jury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 22.9.2015 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2015/247, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 1.1.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2015/378, art. 2, Sch."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/18/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:59.973943+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}