UK Supreme Court.
Hears Scottish civil appeals from the Inner House of the Court of Session. It has no general appellate jurisdiction over Scottish criminal cases.
Case law · Scotland
Scots case law, answered with pinned citations.
Ask about Scots law in plain language. LexChat draws on Scotland's reported cases and legislation — civil and criminal — and pins every proposition to a citation you can open and check.
Why it holds up
Answers you can check, not trust.
Scots law is a mixed system with civilian roots, its own institutional writers and its own vocabulary — pursuers and defenders, delict rather than tort. Authority sits in Session Cases, the Scots Law Times and other series, and UK-wide databases tuned to English law often surface English decisions that are persuasive in Scotland but do not bind.
LexChat searches Scots sources first — reported decisions of the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary, which remains the final court of appeal for Scottish criminal cases, plus Scottish and UK legislation — and reasons only over what it found. Every answer arrives pinned to citations you can open and verify.
The court system
Scotland's courts, ready to query.
Court of Session.
Scotland's supreme civil court, sitting in Edinburgh. The Outer House hears cases at first instance and the Inner House sits as the appeal court.
High Court of Justiciary.
Scotland's supreme criminal court, trying the most serious offences and hearing criminal appeals — the final court of appeal for Scottish criminal cases.
Sheriff courts.
Handle most day-to-day civil and criminal business in communities across Scotland's sheriffdoms, with the Sheriff Appeal Court sitting above them for many civil and summary criminal appeals.
How it works
From question to authority in three steps.
Ask in plain language.
Describe the issue the way you would to a colleague — no query syntax, no database codes, no guessing at keywords.
Retrieval before reasoning.
LexChat searches Scots sources first, and reasons only over what it actually found.
Citations you can open.
Answers arrive pinned to decisions and provisions. Open the source, confirm the holding, and cite it with confidence.
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