Normally the duty must be paid before an appeal can proceed.

Leave to appeal is not a feature of the Scottish legal system and appeals proceeded when two Advocates certified the appeal as suitable.

The crown's appeal then proceeded to the amount of damages awarded, on the following grounds:

An appeal from the post conviction court proceeds just as a direct appeal.

Williams subsequently resigned in 1983 as a condition of remaining free on bail while his appeal proceeded.

But he said his client would comply with the ruling while the appeal proceeded.

Judge Hogan sentenced her to 18 months in jail, but stayed the sentence while her appeal proceeded.

The appeal to the Supreme Court proceeded on two grounds.

Lord Derby's appeal proceeded throughout much of summer 2011, and was the subject of protests from local residents and businesses.

The appeal proceeds on the instructions of "the late residents of Pudding Magna", but is immediately adjourned.