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
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