Act of Sederunt - Purposes of Acts of Sederunt

Purposes of Acts of Sederunt

Acts of Sederunt are used primarily to regulate civil procedure in the Court of Session and Sheriff Courts in Scotland. The Court of Session 1988 has an exhaustive list of how the court may regulate procedure and allocate business via Acts of Sederunt. The fees for Messengers-at-Arms (court officers), solicitors practising before the court, timings of certain appeals, the form of summons, writs, petitions, etc. are examples of procedures regulated by these acts. They also determine certain business which should be laid on the respective rolls and before the Inner House or Outer House, and laying certain powers of trustees.

“ The Court shall have power by act of sederunt—
  • (a) to regulate and prescribe the procedure and practice to be followed in various categories of causes in the Court or in execution or diligence following on such causes, whether originating in the said Court or brought there by way of appeal, removal, remit, stated case, or other like process, and any matters incidental or relating to any such procedure or practice including (but without prejudice to the foregoing generality) the manner in which, the time within which, and the conditions on which any interlocutor of a Lord Ordinary may be submitted to the review of the Inner House, or any application to the Court, or any thing required or authorised to be done in relation to any such causes as aforesaid shall or may be made or done; .
  • (b) to prescribe the form of any summons, defence, petition, answer, writ, pleading, extract of a decree or other document whatsoever to be used in, or for the purposes of, any such causes as aforesaid, or in, or for the purposes of, execution or diligence following on such causes and the manner in which, and the person by whom, any such summons, petition, writ, pleading, extract of a decree or document shall be signed or authenticated;
  • (c) to prescribe the manner in which, the time within which, and the conditions on which any verdict of a jury may be submitted to the review of the Inner House on any ground set out in section 29 of this Act; .
  • (d) to regulate the production and recovery of documents; .
  • (e) to provide in any category of causes before the Court, for the admission in lieu of parole evidence of written statements (including affidavits) and reports, on such conditions as may be prescribed; .
  • (f) to provide for the payment into Court and the investment or application of sums of money awarded in any action of damages in the Court to a pupil or a minor; .
  • (g) to regulate the fees of solicitors practising before the Court (other than such fees as the Secretary of State may regulate under or by virtue of section 33 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986); .
  • (h) to regulate the expenses which may be awarded to parties in causes before the Court; .
  • (i) to regulate the summoning, remuneration, and duties of assessors; .
  • (j) to fix the ordinary sessions of the Court and to regulate the days on which and times at which the Court shall sit; .
  • (k) to prescribe the matters with which the vacation judge may deal; .
  • (l) to make such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act or of any Act conferring powers or imposing duties on the Court or relating to proceedings therein; and .
  • (m) to modify, amend or repeal any provision of any enactment including this Act relating to matters with respect to which an act of sederunt may be made under this Act.
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