Law of the United Kingdom summary court. The sheriff courts provide a local court service with 49 sheriff courts organised across six sheriffdoms. 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 "not proven" result in an acquittal with no possibility of retrial. The Cabinet Secretary for Justice is the member of the Scottish Government responsible for Police Scotland, the courts and criminal justice, and the Scottish Prison Service, which manages the prisons in Scotland. Welsh law is the primary and secondary legislation generated by the National Assembly for
Presumed Guilty: When Cops Get It Wrong and Courts Seal the Deal Presumed Guilty: When Cops Get It Wrong and Courts Seal the Deal Presumed Guilty: When Cops get it Wrong and Courts Seal the Deal is a non-fiction book by Bret Christian, a veteran newspaper reporter and publisher based in Perth, Western Australia. It centres on a cluster of wrongful murder convictions in Perth. First published in 2013, a second edition was released in 2015. Part 1 follows a series of crimes, beginning with the suburban 1959 murder of socialite Jillian MacPherson Brewer, and the wrongful conviction of deaf man Darryl Raymond Beamish in 1961 for that crime, and his exoneration