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en-wikipedia-org-6484		High Court of Justiciary - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	8471	820	65	The High Court of Justiciary remained the final authority on all matters of criminal law after the Act of Union, though the Parliament of Great Britain appears to have had appellate jurisdiction through the judicial functions of the House of Lords this appeared to have little effect in practice.[4][8] In 1713 a case (Magistrates of Elgin v. Trials in the High Court are usually jury trials, with a single Lord Commissioner of Justiciary presiding (although two or more judges may sit in important or difficult cases) with a jury of fifteen individuals; in Scotland this is known as solemn proceedings.[25] Under the Scottish legal system, the jury can convict on a majority verdict of at least eight jurors, and need not return a unanimous verdict.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6484.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6484.txt