[148A Interim diet required in certain sexual or domestic abuse cases]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[148A  Interim diet required in certain sexual or domestic abuse cases]

[(1)     Where, in a case which is adjourned for trial, the charge is of committing [an offence listed in subsection (10)], the court shall order that, before the trial diet, there shall be a diet under this section and ordain the accused then to attend.

(2)     At a diet under this section, the court shall ascertain whether or not the accused has engaged a solicitor for the purposes of his defence at the trial.

(3)     Where, following inquiries for the purposes of

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