Mitchell Skilling

A Lord Ordinary has quashed a decision of a tribunal that a sheriff should not be removed from judicial office after he was found to have acted inappropriately towards a female lawyer. A petition challenging the decision that Sheriff John Brown was fit for office was made by the lawyer, X, who argue

The High Court of Justiciary has refused an appeal against the decision of the Sheriff Appeal Court to quash the acquittal verdict of a man who was tried for two sexual offences that took place in Scotland and Italy between 1992 and 2001. Stephen Motroni faced trial on a summary complaint libelling

The former employer of the driver involved in the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash has successfully defended an action by Glasgow City Council seeking to recover over £6 million it paid in settlements to claimants affected by the crash. It was averred by the pursuer that First Glasgow Ltd owed it

A 2021 Scottish government scheme providing for the funding of milk and healthy snacks for nursery-age children has been ruled unlawful after a petition for judicial review was brought against it. The School and Nursery Milk Alliance Ltd objected to the funding method of the scheme, asserting that i

A woman who hired a construction company to build a luxury dog hotel in Aberdeenshire has lost an appeal seeking to reduce a decree ordering her to pay over £40,000 to the company. Laura Tierney originally raised an action seeking repayment of money she claimed had been paid to the defender, G

The High Court of Justiciary has refused an extradition appeal by three American citizens wanted in the state of Virginia for the attempted kidnapping of five children and the attempted killing of their parents. Warrants for the arrest of the appellants, Jennifer Amnott, Valerie Hayes, and Gary Rebu

A personal injury sheriff has awarded £119,250 in damages to a woman after finding that she was raped by a man she met on a night out in Dundee and that he could not have reasonably believed she had consented to sex. The pursuer, AB, averred that she had not consented to sexual intercourse wit

A Lord Ordinary has dismissed actions raised by two siblings who were former residents of a defunct care home run by the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth in the 1970s after finding that a fair hearing was not possible. It was submitted by the defender that the actions raised by pursuers B and

A petition to the nobile officium of the High Court of Justiciary by a self-titled journalist and blogger who was found in contempt of court after publishing material relating to the trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond has been ruled competent to proceed to a full hearing. Craig Mu

A Glasgow sheriff has granted the son of a deceased man who was adopted as a baby in 1933 access to his adoption process after ruling that the confidentiality of the application was governed by previous adoption legislation. The applicant, JH, made the application in a bid to learn his birth family

The husband of a deceased woman who had an accident in her workplace several months before her death has had an action in the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court dismissed on the ground that he had no title to sue. John Riddell, the executor dative of his late wife Valerie Riddell, argued tha

A reclaiming motion by HM Revenue and Customs against a Lord Ordinary’s decision to reduce an order refusing to grant backdated child tax credits to a refugee couple has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The petitioners, Ali and Saima Adnan, were granted refugee status i

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused a reclaiming motion by the manufacturers and parties involved in anti-competitive practices relating to the sale of trucks to Scottish local authorities and held that actions raised by the authorities were not barred by the passage of time. Glasgow

An advocate who was fined by the Scottish Legal Complaints Committee after it found he had failed to act in a client’s best interests by failing to disclose the terms of a feeing arrangement to senior counsel prior to settlement negotiations has lost an appeal against part of the decision. Jon

The High Court of Justiciary has refused an appeal against extradition by an Irish citizen who claimed he was at risk of having to “slop out” the chamber pot of his prison cell if he were returned to Ireland to serve a custodial sentence. It was argued by Kevin McGourty that there was a