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Scotland's first Drug Court was established in Glasgow Sheriff Court in October 2001 and a second pilot Drug Court was introduced in Fife in August 2002, making its first order on 9th September 2002. The Fife Drug Court was closed in 2013. A Drug Court is aimed at offenders aged 21 years or older in respect of whom there is an established relationship between serious drug misuse and offending. The aim is to reduce drug use and drug-related offending in Scotland.
All Orders made by a Drug Court are subject to drug testing (urinalysis) and regular (at least monthly) review by the Drug Court Sheriffs. The Glasgow Drug Court has the Shrieval capacity to operate on 4 days a week, with 2 Sheriffs covering it on alternate weeks.
Other designated staff include Sheriff Clerks, court officers and, in Glasgow, a Procurator Fiscal and Co-ordinator. In a Drug Court a Supervision and Treatment Team was established to support the Drug Court in all aspects of assessment, supervision, treatment, testing and reports to the court.
BBC News
Drug court hears its first case
Scotland's first drug court has heard its first case on Monday.
The pilot project in Glasgow will give offenders with a history of addiction and drug-related crime the opportunity to change their lifestyle.
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Halsbury's Law Exchange
What can we learn from drug courts?
The introduction of drug courts in the UK has followed a slightly different trajectory to other jurisdictions, where drug courts filled an important gap in the range of community-based sanctions available to the courts to deal with drug-related crime.
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The Herald
Space shortage forces closure of drug court
ONE of Scotland's pioneering drug courts set up more than a decade ago to combat addiction-fuelled crime is to close. Fife Drug Court, which sits at Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline sheriff courts, will hear cases for the last time on Friday.
Read more HERE.
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The Honorable Lindsay Wood, IADCP Contact
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Establishing Drug Courts in Scotland: Early Experiences of the Pilot Drug Courts in Glasgow and Fife (2003)
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An evaluation of the Glasgow and Fife Drug Courts and their aim to reduce drug use and drug related reoffending (2006)
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The Operation and Effectiveness of the Scottish Drug Court Pilots (2006)
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Review of the Drug Courts in Glasgow and Fife Sheriff Courts conducted by the Community Justice Services Division of the Scottish Government. (2010)
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Procedural Justice in Scottish Drug Courts
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Drug Treatment Courts, British Style: The Drug Treatment Court Movement in Britain. * (2009)
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