United Kingdom civil-law principles. The chief courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom serves as the highest court of appeal for civil cases under Scots law. Sheriff courts deal with most civil and criminal cases including conducting criminal trials with a jury, known as sheriff solemn court, or with a sheriff and no jury, known as sheriff summary Court. The Scots legal system is unique in having three possible verdicts for a criminal trial: "guilty", "not guilty" and "not proven". Both "not guilty" and
Guilty Men Men" and argued that "unpreparedness before the war was largely the consequence of the policies of the parties of the Left". In 1944 Geoffrey Mander had published "We were not all wrong". The idea of appeasement as error and cowardice was challenged in 1960 by historian A. J. P. Taylor's controversial "The Origins of the Second World War", in which he argued that, in the circumstances, it might be seen as a rational policy. Guilty Men Guilty Men is a short book published in Great Britain in July 1940 that attacked British public figures for their failure to re-arm and