Deadline calculator

Scotland legal deadline calculator

Choose the court, tribunal or procedure, then enter what happened and when. You will get the date, citation and calculation steps.

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Area of law

Court, tribunal or institution

Deadline

Choose the source branch and establish the actual procedure facts.

Court of Session Act 1988 s40A(2)Binding

Rule notes

Uses the selected source branch, the actual event and the ordinary, unaltered period.

Court and procedure

Applicant seeking a civil appeal. Apply to the Inner House for permission to appeal. Use the main date field for the actual Inner House decision against which the appeal is proposed.

Applicable source branch

Court of Session, Edinburgh

This calculation assumes:

This is an application to the Inner House, not a later application to the UK Supreme Court.
The civil appeal route under section 40 and the permission requirements under section 40A(3) apply.
No different statutory period, extension, sist or court order changes this period.

Was the court closed on any day in this period? (optional)

Actual full-day court holidays and closures affecting this calculation

The supported date window covers 2024 through 2028. A closed-day endpoint needs the actual court date. No automatic extension is inferred. Read the source.

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Included forums

Court of Session
Sheriff Court and Sheriff Appeal Court
UK Supreme Court and criminal appeals
Employment, housing, tax and social-security tribunals
Judicial review, planning, property, insolvency and professional discipline

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Court-directed dates and discretionary extensions are flagged but not predicted.
Local practice and deadlines outside the listed forums are not encoded.

Primary-source collections

Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service rules of court

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Browse Scotland deadline rules

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Court, province or procedure

Rule status

Calculable: fixed period and triggerReference only: no single fixed periodNeeds checking: verify the cited provision

Showing 24 of 73 matching rules

Childrens hearings

Appeal to the sheriff against a children’s hearing decision

21 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the day on which the decision is made
Rule: Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 s154(5)

Childrens hearings

Interim compulsory supervision order: maximum duration

22 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the order being made or extended
Rule: Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 s86(3)

Court of session

Reclaiming without leave (whole merits)

21 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the date on which the interlocutor was pronounced
Rule: RCS 38.2(1)

Court of session

Reclaiming without leave (RCS 38.2(5) interlocutors)

14 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the date on which the interlocutor was pronounced
Rule: RCS 38.2(4) and (5)

Court of session

Reclaiming with leave of the Lord Ordinary

14 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the date on which the interlocutor was pronounced
Rule: RCS 38.3(5) and 38.4

Court of session

Reclaiming on reserved expenses

14 days

Calculable

Time runs from: enrolment of the reclaiming motion
Rule: RCS 38.2(2)

Court of session

Appeal or stated case from a tribunal to the Court of Session

42 days

Calculable

Time runs from: intimation of the decision
Rule: RCS Chapter 41

Criminal appeals

Solemn appeal: intimation of intention to appeal

2 weeks

Calculable

Time runs from: the final determination of the proceedings
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s109

Criminal appeals

Solemn appeal: lodge the note of appeal

8 weeks

Calculable

Time runs from: lodging the intimation of intention to appeal
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s110(1)

Criminal appeals

Crown appeal: note of appeal against sentence

4 weeks

Calculable

Time runs from: the sentence
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

Criminal appeals

Solemn appeal: application to the High Court after first-sift refusal

14 days

Calculable

Time runs from: intimation of the first-sift refusal
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s107(4)

Criminal solemn

Solemn (custody): serve the indictment

80 days

Calculable

Time runs from: full committal
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s65

Criminal solemn

Solemn (custody): first diet or preliminary hearing

110 days

Calculable

Time runs from: full committal
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s65

Criminal solemn

Solemn (custody): commence the trial

140 days

Calculable

Time runs from: full committal
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s65

Criminal solemn

Solemn (bail): first diet

11 months

Calculable

Time runs from: first appearance on petition
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s65

Criminal solemn

Solemn (bail): commence the trial

12 months

Calculable

Time runs from: first appearance on petition
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s65

Criminal summary

Summary (custody): commence the trial

40 days

Calculable

Time runs from: being brought before the court in custody
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s147

Criminal summary

Summary: six-month time bar for statutory offences

6 months

Calculable

Time runs from: the contravention (or its last date in a continuous contravention)
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 s136

Criminal summary

Summary appeal: application for a stated case

1 week

Needs checking

Time runs from: the final determination of the proceedings
Rule: Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 ss175 to 194; Act of Adjournal Chapter 19

One period cannot express this provision faithfully. Check the cited rule.

Employment

Employment tribunal claim (unfair dismissal and most claims)

3 months

Calculable

Time runs from: the effective date of termination (or the act complained of)
Rule: Employment Rights Act 1996 s111 (and parallel provisions)

Employment

Appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal

42 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the written reasons, judgment or order being sent to the parties
Rule: Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 rule 3

Housing

Housing and Property Chamber: application for review

14 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the decision or the written reasons
Rule: First-tier Tribunal Housing and Property Chamber (Procedure) Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/328)

Housing

Notice to leave: 28-day notice period

28 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the notice to leave being given
Rule: Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 s54

Housing

Notice to leave: 84-day notice period

84 days

Calculable

Time runs from: the notice to leave being given
Rule: Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 s54