Case Reports

A private landlord who served notice to leave on his tenants by instructing sheriffs’ officers to deliver the notice has succeeded in overturning a tribunal decision that he had not met the statutory definition of a Notice to Leave under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has sisted proceedings brought by the guarantor of the now-insolvent Ferguson Marine group of companies after finding that the Scottish Ministers were liable to reimburse them under the terms of an indemnity agreement. HCC International In

The High Court of Justiciary has refused an appeal against conviction by a man convicted of attempted murder made on the basis that he had a ‘jigsaw’ basis for a special defence of self-defence. Aaron Dines, also known as Morrison, was sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonm

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has granted an increased award of expenses to a group of 27 religious leaders who successfully challenged the Scottish Ministers’ decision to close places of worship in Scotland from late December 2020 to March 20

A prisoner who sought a review of his case based on defective representation has had his petition against the decision by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to refuse a review of his case rejected by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Paul Kelly was co

A former tenant of a property in Gourock, Inverclyde, has been awarded £1,500 by the First-tier Tribunal Housing and Property Chamber after it found she had been unlawfully evicted by her landlord, who claimed that his sister intended to live in the property. Charlotte Mills sought a wrongful

The Supreme Court has refused an appeal by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs against a decision of the English Court of Appeal not to require a top UK divorce lawyer to pay back over £475,000 in taxes that were avoided via a scheme. HMRC claimed that the respondent, Raymon

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ordered that the young child of a Canadian citizen be returned to Quebec to live with her after an application was made for his return under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction. The mother, ML, petitioned the court for an orde

An owner of a property on the west coast of Scotland who claimed he was wrongly charged for ratings payments on the property has been unsuccessful in an appeal against the dismissal of a judicial review petition raised challenging the decision of the local authority’s ratings board. Brian Phil

A sheriff in Edinburgh has set aside a post-nuptial agreement between a divorcing American couple living in Scotland in which the husband agreed to give his wife nearly everything he owned if they divorced. The defender, M(M), had signed the agreement with the pursuer, M(C), who raised the

A commercial landlord of industrial premises in Motherwell has been unsuccessful in its action against its former tenant for payments it alleged were due to it under a commercial lease between them. The pursuer, Rockford Trilogy Ltd, sought payment of rent, insurance, and service charges from&n

A man who was convicted of a road traffic offence after falling asleep at the wheel of his car and banned from driving for one year has had his appeal against conviction by stated case refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Anthony Wilson was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence

The operators of telecommunications equipment located on land leased from a North Lanarkshire farmer have successfully appealed against a Lands Tribunal for Scotland decision that there was no basis for the termination of an agreement based on a non-current statutory code before the Inner House

Two men who were sentenced to varying periods of imprisonment for spitting at police officers during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic have had their sentenced reduced by the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary. Gordon Dewar and Barry McLean both pled guilty to assault

An Edinburgh pensioner who tripped over a ramp outside a supermarket has succeeded in obtaining over £11,000 in damages after a sheriff in the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court found that the supermarket acted contrary to the Occupiers’ Liability (Scotland) Act 19