Whether convictions of murder, rape or other serious crimes of violence and, in particular, the names of those convicted of such crimes are…

The names of convicted adult offenders and the crimes of which they have been convicted are in the public domain. The information is available from the Depute Principal Clerk of Justiciary at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh.Trials of children for serious offences are held in public but the proceedings are subject to statutory reporting restrictions. The names of convicted children could not be disclosed by the media unless the reporting restrictions were dispensed with by the court during the trial or by the Scottish ministers after the trial.On the grant of interim liberation, the names of adult offenders are also in the public domain. All court proceedings involving children are covered by the statutory reporting restrictions. This would therefore include proceedings on the grant of interim liberation pending appeal.