[25A Rights of audience in the Court of Session, the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the High Court of Justiciary]
Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (1980 c 46) | Legislation

[25A  Rights of audience in the Court of Session, the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the High Court of Justiciary]

[(1)     [Subject to regulations 6 and 11 of the European Communities (Lawyer's Practice) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 [as those regulations have effect by virtue of regulation 6 or 7 of the Services of Lawyers and Lawyer's Practice (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc) Regulations 2019] and] without prejudice to [section 103(8) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (right of solicitor to appear before single judge)] and section 48(2)(b) (extension of rights of audience by act of sederunt) of the Court of Session Act 1988, a solicitor who—

(a)     seeks a right of audience in, on the one hand, the Court of Session, the [Supreme Court] and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council or, on the other hand, the High Court of Justiciary [and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]; and

(b)     has satisfied the Council as to the requirements provided for in this section,

shall have a right of audience in those courts or, as the case may be, that court.

(2)     The requirements mentioned in subsection (1), in relation to the courts

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