What is online?
Lower Court records
The majority of lower court petty session records have been digitised up to 1900. Do an agency search for your district (e.g. Bothwell Lower Court) and then look for ‘petty sessions’ in the list of records. To find lower court districts, you can start by putting just “lower court” in the agency title field.
Supreme Court records
Crown Law Criminal Cases
- 1853-1958 Registers of criminal cases prosecuted by the Crown (AB693). Each register contains an index. These are useful for the period after 1916 when the Crown Law case files (SGD13) change to a file number arrangement.