> I'm unfamiliar with UK Law... Is this actually a court of law or was this done through the Sheriff's department? Interestingly there isn't really such a thin

> I'm unfamiliar with UK Law... Is this actually a court of law or was this done through the Sheriff's department? Interestingly there isn't really such a thing as UK Law; there is the Law of England and Wales, the Law of Northern Ireland, and Scots Law, the final one being applicable here. These three systems are markedly different, and for criminal cases there is not even a shared supreme court for the three jurisdictions. In Scots Law the term "Sheriff" has a different meaning to how the term is used in US law enforcement. It refers to the Sheriff Court [0], a Sheriff being a judge. > That said, I don't know if the UK has protections for free speech the way the US does. It doesn't. [0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_court