The Bill to scrap Scotland's not proven verdict and make a number of changes to the justice system has been published.
The Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill will also change the size of criminal juries from 15 to 12. It aims to address a number of issues around serious sexual offences, creating a new specialist sexual offences court.
Ministers will also have the power to carry out a pilot of rape trials being conducted by a single judge without a jury. For jury trials, the majority needed for a guilty verdict will be at least two-thirds.
