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Thomas Ross The SLN Spotlight this week falls on Thomas Ross, advocate and president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association.

Lord Uist An offer by a party to settle a case out of court by making a payment of provisional damages “inherently carries with it an admission of liability”, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled.

A man accused of sexually abusing his niece and nephew has been acquitted after a judge upheld a “no case to answer” submission. Lord Uist ruled that the “Moorov” doctrine could not be applied to corroborate the conduct libelled in the two charges.

Former boxer Scott Harrison is to be extradited to Spain to serve a prison sentence for two assault convictions after a sheriff granted a warrant sought by the Lord Advocate. The former WBO Featherweight Champion was sentenced to four years imprisonment by a court in Malaga in 2012 and a European Ar

A “prominent” professional sportsman has been granted an injunction preventing a newspaper publishing a “kiss and tell” story about a sexual relationship he had with another woman before he was married. A judge at the High Court in London granted the application by the un-named married coupl

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An “overstayer” who claimed that his removal from the UK to India would breach his human rights because he was engaged to a British woman has had a petition for judicial review dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session refused a challenge to a ruling that even if the petitioner was in such a re

A father-of-two who claimed his wife abducted their children and “wrongfully removed” them from Australia to Scotland has had an application for their return to New South Wales refused. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the the father had “acquiesced” in the mother’s wrongful remo

A Scottish legal firm has successfully challenged a decision of an arbiter to make an award in favour of a former partner who raised an action against his ex-colleagues following resignation from the partnership. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the arbiter acted “ultra vires” and “c

The English Bridge Union (EBU) has failed in a legal challenge to have the card game recognised as a sport. A judge at the High Court in London ruled that the decision by English Sports Council- a non-departmental public body which provides government and lottery funding for sport in the community -

Lord Glennie A rapist who claimed that the Scottish Prison Service had failed in their duty to provide him with a reasonable opportunity for rehabilitation has had a petition for judicial review dismissed.

A golf club which sued the suppliers of an electric trolley after a “Motocaddy” caught fire and caused extensive damage to a clubhouse have had an action for more than £500,000 damages refused. A judge in the Court of Session dismissed the club’s claim that the producers and importers of the

A woman who was left permanently disabled after sustaining a “profound and irreversible” brain injury during her birth has had a late application to amend her claim against a health board refused. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the minute of amendment, which proposed a new “risk di

A motion to remit a £25,000 damages action to the new national personal injury court has been refused by a judge in the Court of Session. Lord Boyd of Duncansby held that the fact that a claim was “small and straightforward” was not in itself enough to justify remit to the sheriff court.