Mitchell Skilling

The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that a Simple Procedure claim served on a debtor via next-day postal delivery without a confirmation of delivery being lodged with the sheriff court constituted valid service by post. Cabot Financial UK Ltd, which sought to recover an assigned debt f

An appeal against a two-year prison sentence imposed on a drug dealer who defaulted in paying a confiscation order of over £75,000 has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. It was argued for appellant Lawrence Phee, who was already serving an 8-year sentence for the drug-related offenc

A union representing a group of London-based Deliveroo riders have lost a Supreme Court appeal against a decision that it could not compel the company to engage with it for the purposes of collective bargaining. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, which included among its members a numbe

A family judge in the Court of Session has ruled that a Latvian mother and her two children aged two and four should not relocate from Aberdeen, where the mother held permanent employment, to Glasgow so that the children could be closer to their father. Both the pursuer, M, and the defender, A, held

A parole application by a life prisoner who has continually maintained his innocence of the murder he was convicted of has had a petition for judicial review of the Parole Board for Scotland’s decision not to grant him parole refused by the Outer House of the Court of Session. It was argued by

An appeal against the imposition of a Community Payback Order on an elderly man convicted of abusive behaviour towards his partner and three breaches of bail conditions has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. It was argued by appellant Norman Bowman, aged 63, that the sheriff had failed to

A commercial judge has removed the joint administrators of a London Stock Exchange listed company operating football centres across the UK after the company’s largest shareholder, owed approximately £2.4 million by the company, made an application to the Court of Session. The application

The Supreme Court has ruled that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims decided there is unlawful, dismissing an appeal made against a previous decision to that effect. It had previously been held by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales that the poli

An Edinburgh man who was the primary beneficiary under his late aunt’s will before she made a new one in favour of her brother, who had moved into her house against her wishes, has successfully challenged the validity of a 2019 will on the grounds of lack of testamentary capacity, facility and

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused a reclaiming motion by a divorced father challenging a lord ordinary’s decision that he should pay for the totality of the school fees for three of his children to attend separate private schools up until the date he resigned from his employm

An appeal to the Court of Session against a decision that the tenant of a farm in Kelso did not breach his repairing obligations under his lease has been refused by the Inner House after finding that the Scottish Land Court had not erred in its construction of the contract. It was held by the Land C

A lord ordinary has rejected a challenge to a part award made by an arbitrator in a commercial lease dispute after ruling that the legal error contended for by the petitioner did not arise. The petitioner was the tenant of premises in Glasgow from which they had operated a hotel accommodation busine

The Sheriff Appeal Court has quashed a sheriff’s order allowing the recovery of telephone records from devices owned by a complainer in a summary complaint under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 after finding that it was unnecessary in the circumstances of the case. Counsel for the Procu

The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed a reclaiming motion challenging a lord ordinary’s finding that a long-running legal dispute between a Scottish company and its tea plantation workers in Kenya can be heard in Scotland, and sisted the case until the resolution of individual pr

A freight company that sought over £230,000 from a firm of solicitors on the basis that it provided negligent advice during a contentious settlement discussion with a former contractor has been unsuccessful in an action before the Outer House of the Court of Session. Ronnie O’Neill Freig