Mitchell Skilling

An application by a Scottish solicitors' firm challenging an action raised against them in the English High Court for professional negligence by a dual qualified solicitor advising on a planning application has been refused. Wright, Johnston and Mackenzie LLP, a firm with no registered office in Eng

A disabled woman who raised three separate simple procedure claims for the reimbursement of money she claimed was owed to her by the City of Edinburgh Council has had all three actions dismissed by the Sheriff Appeal Court following an appeal against their refusal. Chaza Afandi raised three claims w

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a Scottish man wanted to stand trial in the USA for securities fraud is entitled to a new extradition hearing after the High Court of Justiciary ruled his extradition would not be incompatible with his ECHR rights. It had been argued by counsel for the appellant,

A Nigerian college tutor who submitted a “near miss” application for indefinite leave to remain in the UK has had an appeal against a decision not to grant permission for a judicial review application to proceed refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The petitioner and recla

The Inner House of the Court of Session has upheld a judicial review decision that the General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation could have misconduct proceedings instigated against him after he engaged in a Twitter argument with the solicitor of Sheku Bayoh’s family following his de

A sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of three fishermen who died after their lifeboat failed to inflate has concluded that it was not possible to determine the cause of the flooding that caused their vessel to sink, but that failures by the vessel’s owners and the comp

A person injury sheriff has made a payment order totalling nearly £1.4 million after finding that a 54-year-old man was abused as a child at a boarding school operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Senior counsel for the pursuer, AB, had sought a combined award of £1,741,107

The Inner House of the Court of Session has upheld a Lord Ordinary’s decision not to order a company involved in the production of defective vaginal mesh products to state whether it had assets or insurance sufficient to meet any liabilities arising from claims against it. The reclaimer, N, wa

An appeal by a sex-based women’s rights group against a Lord Ordinary’s decision that guidance issued by the National Records of Scotland on how to answer a question in the upcoming Scottish census has been rejected by the Inner House of the Court of Session. Fair Play for Women Scotland

A sole practitioner solicitor who was found to have unfairly dismissed his receptionist by an employment tribunal and ordered to pay her over £15,000 in compensation has lost an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal against the decision. The appellant, Mr W Finlayson (trading as Finlaysons)

The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed a reclaiming motion by the BBC against a decision that the chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry had legitimately issued three consecutive restriction orders preventing the publication of information about an employment tribunal claim against h

A Lord Ordinary has determined that guidance issued by the National Records of Scotland on answering a question in the 2022 Scottish census is legally valid after it was challenged by an organisation that campaigns for biological sex-based rights of women and girls in the UK. It was contended by Fai

An Edinburgh man who was convicted of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner after he entered a flat one floor above his own one while naked has had his conviction quashed after the Sheriff Appeal Court accepted his appeal by stated case. It was argued by KWM that the sheriff had erred in conv

A reclaiming motion challenging part of legislation that required 50 per cent of the people sitting on public boards in Scotland to be women has succeeded before the Inner House of the Court of Session. It was argued by the reclaimer, For Women Scotland Ltd, that in disapplying parts of the Equality

The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld a sheriff’s decision that a servitude right of access to a single-track roadway granted to the owners of a house in Cupar did not include access to the passing places and verges along that road. The appellants, Ian and Ruth MacAllan, were granted a right of