On your left, look for a crisp, modern block of concrete and glass with a long line of square columns like a sheltered runway leading to the entrance.
This is the Inverness Justice Centre, the city’s newer home for the serious business of law: the sheriff court, justice of the peace court, and the procurator fiscal’s offices (that’s the public prosecutor). For generations, court hearings squeezed into Inverness Castle, but by 2020 the caseload had outgrown those old rooms and a purpose-built courthouse became a necessity. The spot you’re standing by used to be a bus depot on Longman Road, once edged by neat terraced houses, before it was recast into this Modernist statement by Reiach and Hall-built in concrete and sheet glass for about £24 million (around £32 million today). Inside are six courtrooms, and the building’s bold, slightly off-kilter frontage even won top Scottish design awards in 2021. It has also hosted chilling history-in-the-making, like the 2022 trial tied to the long-mysterious Renee and Andrew MacRae case.
When you’re set, St Michael and All Angels is about a 17-minute walk heading southwest, going through two roundabouts.
