Society, Politics & Law
Scotland’s ‘not proven’ verdict helps juries communicate their belief of guilt when lack of evidence fails to convict
...study of its kind for ten years, aimed to establish just that. The third way The not proven verdict is to be found only in Scotland. Unlike the Anglo-American system, Scotland has three verdicts: guilty, not guilty and not proven. The confusion over the not proven verdict relates to the fact that Scottish law has not defined what the not proven verdict means, and it has...