- Appeals may be made to:
- the High Court of Justiciary sitting as the Court of Criminal Appeal from the lower courts in criminal cases.
- to the High Court if the High Court itself heard the case at first instance.
- To hear an appeal against sentence requires 2 Judges to sit.
- To hear an appeal against conviction requires 3 Judges sit.
- There is no further appeal from the High Court's decision on appeal, in contrast to the Court of Session, from which it is possible to appeal to the House of Lords (the UK's highest court).
- However, appeals under the Human Rights Act and devolution appeals under the 1998 Scotland Act are heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. (The members of the Judicial Committee also sit in the House of Lords as the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.)
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