Mitchell Skilling

The High Court of Justiciary has restored the conviction of a private hire taxi driver who was charged with making a sexual verbal communication at two passengers after an appeal by the Procurator Fiscal in Edinburgh. Respondent Faisal Aziz had previously had his conviction quashed after a successfu

An organisation that sought to challenge revised statutory guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers regarding what is meant by a “woman” for the purposes of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 has had its petition for judicial review refused by the Scottish Mi

A Crown Bill of Advocation in respect of a sheriff’s decision to adjourn and later desert a trial diet for a serving soldier accused of sexually and physically assaulting another soldier has been refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Respondent Ryan Cooper had been placed under special bail con

The Inner House of the Court of Session has made an order for two solicitors to deliver a file to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission that it had sought as part of a complaint investigation into them, under exception of any privileged material contained in it. It had previously been held by the

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal by a manufacturer of cigarette papers against a finding that the company that handled the maintenance of their printing machines was only liable for just over £3,000 of an approximately £29 million loss, and assoilzied the def

A challenge to the legislative competence of part of Scottish legislation aimed at reducing a perceived imbalance in the relationship between the landlords of “tied pubs” and their tenants has been refused by a Lord Ordinary in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Petitioners Greene

A Lord Ordinary has refused to grant an application made by the daughter of a deceased man for a decree ordaining her adopted sister to seek a full account of her intromissions as both attorney and executor-nominate of the deceased’s estate and to repay the estate for monies she had taken from

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by a firm that sought the dismissal of an action raised against it by their former commercial agent in Scotland after it ruled that a plea of res judicata should have been accepted by the sheriff. Pursuer and respondent Hugh Beattie originally raised th

A Lord Ordinary has reduced a decision of the Home Secretary rejecting a take charge request by the Greek authorities concerning of two Syrian brothers who applied for asylum there but wished to go and live with their uncle in Glasgow. Petitioners A and B, twins born in 2003, were informed that they

A man who was convicted of assaulting his sister and attempting to murder another man at her Edinburgh flat along with a co-accused and was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment has lost an appeal against conviction in the High Court of Justiciary. It was argued by appellant Darren Hughes, who

The High Court of Justiciary has allowed appeals by two of four co-accused found guilty of murdering a man in a drive-by shooting against the imposition of serious crime prevention orders under the Serious Crime Act 2015 due to commence after their release from prison. Darren Eadie and John Kennedy

Two appeals by the Assessor for Lothian against decisions of the valuation committee in respect of damaged land on a Livingston industrial estate have been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. It was argued by the appellants that the committee was wrong to focus on whether a potential

A man who alleged that he had lost his left eye as a result of medical negligence necessitating its surgical removal has been allowed a proof in his action against the Greater Glasgow Health Board.  James McGraw, who was diagnosed with a form of skin cancer in 2013, alleged negligence on the pa

A Crown appeal against a trial judge’s decision to sustain an objection against the leading of a docket narrating that the accused in a rape trial had previously raped an ex-partner by removing a condom during consensual intercourse has been allowed by the High Court of Justiciary. Respondent

An appeal by two parents whose youngest children were removed from them following allegations of abuse have lost an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to uphold a children’s hearing decision in the Court of Session. Appellants LO and EO, who along with their children held dual nationali