Judicial Factors
Discussion paper on Judicial Factors
This discussion paper, published by the Scottish Law Commission
(SLC) recognises that the legislation relating to judicial factors
is out of date and no longer fit for purpose. The paper offers two
possible options for reform.
The first is to keep the existing structure but to modernise it
and make it more efficient by means such as updating the powers and
duties of judicial factors as well as the procedure by which they
are discharged. The second option proposes a new public official,
the Official Judicial Factor, who would carry out all judicial
factory work unless the court wished to appoint someone else. An
existing public official would become the Official Judicial Factor
so that the functions would be part of the functions of an existing
public office.