Editing Sheriff (section)

=====''Sheriffs principal''=====
The most senior sheriffs are the [[sheriff principal|sheriffs principal]], who have administrative as well as judicial authority in the six [[sheriffdom]]s, and are responsible for the effective running and administration of all the sheriff courts in their jurisdiction. Sheriffs principal also sit as appeal sheriffs in the [[Sheriff Appeal Court]]; hearing appeals against [[sentence (law)|sentencing]] and [[conviction]] from [[summary offence|summary trials]] in the sheriff courts and [[justice of the peace court]]s.<ref name="profileprincipal">{{cite web|author1=Judicial Office for Scotland|title=The Office of Sheriff Principal|url=https://www.judicialappointments.scot/sites/default/files/files/information_pages/The%20Office%20of%20Sheriff%20Principal.doc|website=www.judicialappointments.scot|publisher=Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland|access-date=4 April 2017|date=March 2016|archive-date=30 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230011832/https://www.judicialappointments.scot/sites/default/files/files/information_pages/The%20Office%20of%20Sheriff%20Principal.doc|url-status=dead}}</ref> The additional duties of a sheriff principal include being [[Northern Lighthouse Board|Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouse Board]] (which is the [[general lighthouse authority]] for Scotland), and chairing local criminal justice boards which bring together local representatives of [[Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service|procurator fiscal]], [[Police Scotland]] and [[Community Justice Scotland]], and [[Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service]].<ref name="NLB">{{cite web|title=Schedule 8 of Merchant Shipping Act 1995|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/schedule/8|website=www.legislation.gov.uk|publisher=The National Archives|access-date=2 April 2017|language=en|date=19 July 1995}}</ref><ref name="localboards">{{cite web|title=Local Criminal Justice Boards|url=http://www.gov.scot/Topics/archive/law-order/Local|website=www.gov.scot|publisher=Scottish Government|access-date=2 April 2017|language=en|date=3 April 2006|archive-date=25 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125025441/http://www.gov.scot/Topics/archive/law-order/Local|url-status=dead}}</ref>