Talk:Court of Session

Broken and misdirected links
Took out some broken links and other ones that didn't make any sense. Whispering 04:39, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Title "Lady of Council and Session"
On the web, I found this title only in WP or in WP clones, is the phrase "Lady of Council and Session" really used? Apokrif 20:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Lord of Council and Session is, I believe, used; so Lady presumably is, for those judges who are female. I'll have a look in some secondary sources shortly. AGK 12:51, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

B class? No way!
As the founder of WikiProject Scotland I have been rating articles for a long time, and I am very sorry, but even after the recent expansion this article is still a million miles away from meeting the B-class criteria. IMHO it is borderline Start/C. The History section especially is utterly lamentable - this institution has nearly 500 years of history under its belt, yet Wikipedia can only find two lousy sentences to say about its history (with just one ref). If it wasn't so sad it would be almost funny.

As a compromise I will re-rate it to C, but please note that such incomplete articles really ought not to recieve C ratings.

The Good Article nomination is way too early. --Mais oui! (talk) 13:59, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * C-class it is, then. B probably was much too generous. What secondary sources I have in my own collection that discuss the court do not go into its history in great depth, so I've been able to add little to that section. Actually, they deal primarily with the court's structure and the influence of precedent established in the court, so the only thing I could add to the history section is "The structure and influence of the court has changed little since its foundation"—which is specifically a lack of history! AGK 01:17, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Google books has a copyright-expired book "The practice of the Court of Session: on the basis of the late Mr. Darling's work of 1833" that may be worth a read. It was published in 1848 so it is quite out of date, but that is probably more of a help than a hindrance for expanding the history section. Road Wizard (talk) 20:17, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Court of Teinds
As part of the Act of Union a new court called the "Court of Teinds" was created to make certain administrative decisions for churches in Scotland (not explicitly stated in the sources but I suspect it applied to Church of Scotland matters only). The issues covered by the court appear to have involved creating new churches, setting boundaries of parishes, allocating tithes and adjusting the stipends of the clergy. The Court of Teinds shared the same judges as the Court of Session but was otherwise described as a separate court with its own clerks and officials.

The article Court of Teinds currently redirects here but there is no mention of it in this article at the moment. Should we include the topic here or place it over the redirect? Road Wizard (talk) 22:36, 15 November 2009 (UTC)


 * My instinct is to say that we ought to create the article. Including it in this article would be exceeding the scope we're working within, and unduly inflate the article. AGK 23:13, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

History of the Court of Session
Hello! I noticed that there was some discussion some time ago that the history section of this article is lacking and not much action seems to have been taken. I am quite busy at the moment with other articles, but if anyone is interested this source (p. 58 onwards) has a very good discourse on the historical development of the College of Justice and the Court of Session. It is quite reliable as it is written by well respected Professors in Scotland. If anyone has the time please use! (Connolly15 (talk) 20:55, 30 November 2011 (UTC))

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