{"id":13338,"date":"2026-06-12T18:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:07:31","slug":"passions-run-high-in-cathedral-court-case-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/06\/12\/passions-run-high-in-cathedral-court-case-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Passions run high in Cathedral court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13343\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/06\/12\/passions-run-high-in-cathedral-court-case-3\/court-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12 mini&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1781260141&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.012658227848101&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Court 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\" wp-image-13343 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180556\/Court-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/>Our Primary 6 classrooms were transformed into court rooms on Friday 12th June for an engaging <em>Developing the Young Workforce<\/em> activity, facilitated by Cathedral parent, Mrs Neville. Mrs Neville works as a Sheriffdom Legal Advisor for the Scottish Courts &amp; Tribunals Service and supported our Primary 6 learners to run their very own court case, the case of Oliver and the stolen jewels.\u00a0 The big question was: did Mr Oliver Twist steal Mr Brownlow&#8217;s jewels within the grounds of Cathedral Primary School?.<\/p>\n<p>The children learned about the Scottish criminal court system before taking on various legal profession roles: lawyers, Procurator Fiscal,\u00a0 Defence Agent, Court Police Officer, Bar Officer, Sheriff, JP, Legal Advisor and Clerk. Other pupils played the accused and the witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The verdicts in each class were as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Court hearing <\/strong>: Not guilty<\/p>\n<p>Well done to Primary 6 for engaging so passionately in the court proceedings and many thanks to Mrs Neville for giving so generously of her time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13344\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/06\/12\/passions-run-high-in-cathedral-court-case-3\/court-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180609\/Court-2-rotated.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"900,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12 mini&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1781257353&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0082644628099174&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Court 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180609\/Court-2-225x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180609\/Court-2-768x1024.jpeg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180609\/Court-2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180609\/Court-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180609\/Court-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/06\/12180609\/Court-2-rotated.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Primary 6 classrooms were transformed into court rooms on Friday 12th June for an engaging Developing the Young Workforce activity, facilitated by Cathedral parent, Mrs Neville. Mrs Neville works as a Sheriffdom Legal Advisor for the Scottish Courts &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/06\/12\/passions-run-high-in-cathedral-court-case-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions\/13345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}