Case Reports

Direct offers made in pay negotiations by an employer to employees who were trade union members fell foul of employment legislation, the Supreme Court has ruled. The Supreme Court unanimously allowed the appeal of 56 claimants and restored the awards made by the Employment Tribunal. It held that Kos

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ordered a local authority to pay over £1.3 million in damages to a man who was abused by his foster carer. The pursuer, A, now aged 50, averred that Glasgow City Council was vicariously liable for the acts and omissions of his carer, refer

The nieces of a deceased Irish citizen who executed her will in Scotland have failed in their application to have the writing on the back of an envelope containing a copy of the will recognised as an adjunct or codicil to it. Christina Cummins and Bridget Tierney, the nieces of the late Mary Downey,

A Scottish environmental charity has successfully challenged the manner in which licences for lethal control of beavers in Scotland were issued by way of petition for judicial review in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Trees For Life sought nine declarators as well as the reduction of 49 lic

The operators of a popular Glasgow bar have successfully challenged a decision of the City of Glasgow Licensing Board not to grant them seven consecutively running occasional licences for a pop-up bar in Glasgow’s Merchant City. Keasim Ltd, the operators of Malones bar in Sauchiehall Lane, bro

The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has refused to pass a Bill of Suspension seeking the suspension of a warrant authorising the arrest of a man charged by the police with assault to severe injury. Brian Docherty had previously been released from police custody and attended Dunoon Sheri

A sheriff has ruled that the purported assignee of a standard security had no title to enforce it against the original granter and was in breach of court rules by not lodging an unredacted version of the assignation it founded upon with the court. Giovanni Guidi granted a registered standard securit

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ruled that the operators of a store in a shopping centre in Glasgow were in breach of a court order obliging them to keep the store open but that their actions were not in contempt of court. Sapphire 16 SARL, the landlord under a lease of the pr

A sheriff in Livingston Sheriff Court has found that a charge under Section 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour against an accused’s ex-partner was able to be sufficiently corroborated by Crown evidence. The accused, JH, was charged with str

A Sudanese man who made an asylum claim based on his alleged involvement in an anti-government movement has had his petition for judicial review of the decision to reject his claim refused by the Court of Session. The petitioner and appellant, AHT, originally had his petition refused by the Outer Ho

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a woman who alleged that the UK government failed to properly implement two EU Directives on protection against workplace discrimination. The appellant, Ms Anwar, originally brought judicial review proceedings before the Court of Session after being un

A former architect who was erased from the architect’s register for unprofessional conduct has been unsuccessful in his challenge of the decision to remove him in the Court of Session.  James Thomson argued that the Architect Registration Board had sanctioned him excessively and that he h

The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has upheld a judge’s decision to impose an Order for Lifelong Restriction against a 24-year-old Aberdeen man convicted of several offences against two former partners. The appellant, AB, was convicted of 11 charges including serious assaults, ab

The environmental group Greenpeace has lost its appeal in the Court of Session against decisions allowing two companies to create two new production wells in the Vorlich oil field in the North Sea.  BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd and Ithaca Energy UK Ltd, who appeared as interested partie

Certain provisions of bills passed by the Scottish Parliament are outside its legislative competence, the Supreme Court has ruled. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill (UNCRC) and the European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotl