On the matter of court business volumes and trends, I would draw the Committee’s attention to the latest quarterly bulletin (April 2023) on “Criminal Case Throughput” published by the SCTS, which can be found at the link below: https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/about-the-scottish-court-service/scs- news/2023/05/23/monthly-information-on-criminal-case-throughput-for- april-2023 The bulletin indicates that the average time between pleading diet and evidence led trial is: • 49 weeks for High Court, compared...