Scottish Court in the Netherlands

Scottish Court in the Netherlands
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Established1999
Dissolved2002
JurisdictionScots Law
LocationKamp van Zeist, Zeist, Netherlands
The Right Honourable
CurrentlyLord Cullen
Since1998
Lead position ends2002
Other Judges
CurrentlyLord Kirkwood, Lord Osborne, Lord Macfadyen and Lord Nimmo-Smith.
Since1998
Lead position ends2002

The Scottish court in the Netherlands was a special sitting of the High Court of Justiciary set up under Scots law in a former United States Air Force base, Camp Zeist near Utrecht, in the Netherlands, for the trial of two Libyans charged with 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988.[1][2] A school on the former base was converted into a judicial court for the trial.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Uncertain future for Camp Zeist". BBC News. 14 March 2002. Retrieved 30 January 2011. The former military base at Camp Zeist in Holland has been under Scottish jurisdiction for more than three years. The base was converted into a prison and a courtroom to provide the venue for the Lockerbie trial – the largest and most expensive ever conducted under Scots law.
  2. ^ Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2251 The High Court of Justiciary (Proceedings in the Netherlands) (United Nations) Order 1998