High Court of Justiciary

British

noun

the senior criminal court in Scotland, to which all cases of murder and rape and all cases involving heavy penalties are referred

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Lord Bracadale was appointed to the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary in 2003, and to the Inner House in 2013.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

Kavanaugh said the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland denied their appeal and determined there is no bar to their extradition.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022

Robert Roy, the principal party in the crime, did not appear before the High Court of Justiciary, to which he was summoned: he was therefore outlawed.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Thomson, Mrs.

We have stated that Andrew Wilson, George Robertson, and William Hall, were condemned by the High Court of Justiciary to die on Wednesday the 14th of April 1736.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

They wunna fence the Court as they do at the Circuit—the High Court of Justiciary is aye fenced.—But,

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023