{"id":1437,"date":"2020-03-26T12:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2020-03-27T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T12:58:30","slug":"edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Sheriff Court: Coronavirus Emergency Contingency Arrangements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CORONAVIRUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EMERGENCY CONTINGENCY ARRANGEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDINBURGH SHERIFF COURT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GUIDANCE IN RESPECT OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL BUSINESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guidance has been issued over the past few days with regard to both Criminal and Civil business.<\/p>\n<p>That guidance requires to be updated following the stringent restrictions put in place by the United Kingdom and Scottish Governments on Monday of this week.<\/p>\n<p>With immediate effect the following arrangements for the programming of courts will apply.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A court will be programmed to deal with criminal business including custodies each day of the week.<\/li>\n<li>There will be no civil courts programmed until further notice. However, a sheriff will be available to determine any truly urgent civil business.\u00a0 It is anticipated that any civil applications will be considered by a sheriff in chambers who will firstly determine whether the business is truly urgent and will then decide how to deal with any application or motion.\u00a0 It is likely that urgent business will be determined on the written submissions or by tele-conference.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Sheriff Principal M M Stephen QC<br \/>\n<\/em><em>26 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY CONTINGENCY ARRANGEMENTS EDINBURGH SHERIFF COURT GUIDANCE IN RESPECT OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL BUSINESS Guidance has been issued over the past few days with regard to both Criminal and Civil business. That guidance requires to be updated following the stringent restrictions put in place by the United Kingdom and Scottish Governments on Monday of this week. With immediate effect the following arrangements for the programming of courts will apply. A court will be programmed to deal with criminal business including custodies each day of the week. There will be no civil courts programmed until further notice. However, a sheriff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Edinburgh Sheriff Court: Coronavirus Emergency Contingency Arrangements - Edinburgh Family Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/\",\"name\":\"Edinburgh Sheriff Court: Coronavirus Emergency Contingency Arrangements - Edinburgh Family Law\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/utils.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-26T12:56:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-27T12:58:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/3829ddd914d71714591fe15f9a799e04\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/utils.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/utils.jpg\",\"width\":615,\"height\":409,\"caption\":\"Edinburgh Sheriff Court\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/edinburgh-sheriff-court-coronavirus-emergency-contingency-arrangements\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Edinburgh Sheriff Court: Coronavirus Emergency Contingency Arrangements\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.edinburghfamilylaw.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"Edinburgh Family Law\",\"description\":\"Beverley Johnson Family Lawyer &amp; 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