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The Sheriff (Removal from Office) Order 2024

S.S.I. 2024/148 · Made 21 May 2024

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Sheriff Court

Made at 9.00 a.m. on 21st May 2024

Laid before the Scottish Parliament at 12.15 p.m. on 21st May 2024

Coming into force 7th June 2024

The First Minister makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 25(2) of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014f1, and all other powers enabling him to do so.

In accordance with section 25(1) of that Act this Order is made—

  1. (a)

    after considering a report by a tribunal constituted under section 21(1) of that Act to the First Minister that Sheriff John Albert Brown is unfit to hold the office of sheriff by reason of misbehaviour; and

  2. (b)

    that report being laid by the First Minister before the Scottish Parliament in accordance with section 24(2) of that Act.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2014 c. 18.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Removal from office
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Sheriff (Removal from Office) Order 2024 and comes into force on 7 June 2024.

2Removal from office

Sheriff John Albert Brown, a sheriff for the Sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands, is removed from the office of sheriff.

Signature

JOHN SWINNEY

First Minister, Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

At 9.00 a.m. on 21st May 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order removes Sheriff John Albert Brown, a sheriff for the Sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands, from the office of sheriff. The Order follows a report submitted to the First Minister by a tribunal constituted under section 21(1) of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 reporting that the sheriff is unfit to hold office by reason of misbehaviour and that report being laid before the Scottish Parliament.