Case Reports

The Outer House of the Court of Session has refused to grant declarator to the effect that the Scottish Parliament should be able to legislate for a second referendum on Scottish independence without the consent of Westminster, calling the action “hypothetical, academic, and prematur

Two separate Crown appeals against what it considered unduly lenient sentences handed to two men convicted of dangerous driving charges have been rejected by the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary. The appellants, Shaun Gatti and Stephen Jones, both pled guilty to the c

A judge in the High Court of England and Wales has awarded an Oxford professor over £985,000 in damages after successfully establishing that the law firm that drew up the trust agreement governing his late mother’s estate had negligently failed to provide a veto over a proposed

The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has refused the appeal against conviction of a man who was charged with attempted murder after stabbing his upstairs neighbour in the chest at the doorway of his home. Kevin McGrouther argued that the trial judge had misdirected the jur

A prisoner serving a life sentence in HMP Edinburgh who sought a judicial review of the failure of the prison authorities to progress him through the route to parole by moving him to a less secure facility has had his petition refused. The punishment part of William Beggs’ sentence expire

Two appeals by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator against the Upper Tribunal for Scotland’s decision to allow two companies to be entered on the register of charities has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The respondents, New Lanark Hotels L

A man has been refused permission to appeal against a decision of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission that a firm of solicitors he instructed to wind up his deceased father’s estate had not failed to communicate effectively with him about the fact they had not received a death certificate

A man who received a total hip replacement that he alleged was defective has had his appeal against the dismissal of his case refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The pursuer and reclaimer, John Hastings, claimed that the prosthesis he received from the defenders, Finsbury Orthopaedic

An action by the lessee of a storage unit located on a former poultry farm that was destroyed by a fire in 2016 has been dismissed by a sheriff. Philip Samson rented a unit at the Turkeytorium, formerly Fenton Barns Farm, owned by DC Watson & Sons (Fenton Barns) Ltd, and sought damages for loss

A man serving a life sentence for murder after striking a man with a machete outside a Glasgow pub has had his appeal against conviction refused. David Callaghan appealed on the ground that the trial judge did not direct the jury that the confession of his co-accused to his participation on the atta

An Aberdeen-based IT company has successfully appealed against a decision of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission after it dismissed a complaint the company made against a firm of solicitors that it had instructed. Aberdeen Computer Services Ltd ultimately agreed twelve issues of

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has refused a man’s petition for his brother and sister-in-law to be removed as executors of his late father’s estate and the executry completed by an appointed judicial factor.  Grame Campbell, one of two sons of the late

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that business interruption losses resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic are recoverable under a variety of insurance policies after appeals by both the Financial Conduct Authority and various insurance companies. The original proceedings by the FCA w

The Civil Division of the Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by a mother against the grant of a supervised contact order for her young daughter’s father and remitted the case to a new sheriff for reconsideration. The appellant, AG, who was the defender in the original ap

The High Court of Justiciary has rejected a final posthumous appeal against conviction on behalf of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. Mr Megrahi was originally convicted of the murders of 270 people by a bench of three judges at a trial