Case Reports

A convicted sex offender who was released from prison on licence has failed in his challenge of a condition in his release licence requiring him to inform his supervising officer of any friendships, associations, or intimate or domestic relationships that he enters into with anyone. The petitioner,

A man convicted of murdering a man in Turiff, Aberdeenshire, has had the punishment part of his sentence reduced on appeal to the High Court of Justiciary. Liam Hay, who was 20 years old at the time of the murder and at the time of sentencing,  argued that the sentence was excessive o

A medical practice that took on the staff of a dissolved practice has been unsuccessful in its petition to suspend an Employment Tribunal order requiring it to re-engage a doctor who was employed by the dissolved practice. Levenside Medical Practice, based in Dumbarton, argued that an order could no

Two Scottish football clubs have succeeded in their petition for the recovery of documents relevant to orders they sought in terms of the Companies Act 2006. Heart of Midlothian Football Club plc (Hearts) and The Partick Thistle Football Club Ltd (Partick Thistle), alleged that t

The UK branch of the environmental organisation Greenpeace has been fined for breach of an interdict granted against them by an offshore drilling company. Transocean Drilling UK Ltd raised a minute against Greenpeace and persons unknown for breach of an interdict granted in June 2019

A Scottish baron has lost an appeal challenging the refusal of his petition to the Queen to grant him a peerage and entitlement to sit in the House of Lords. Graham Nassau Gordon Senior-Milne, the Baron of Mordington was recognised as a baron in 2004 following his purchase of the land to which

A reclaiming motion by a trust against the partial enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision in respect of a dispute between the trust and a company contracted to build a house for the trust has been refused. Dickie & Moore Ltd, the pursuer and respondent, originally raised the proceedings

The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that a Lord Ordinary is not required to appoint an oral hearing when considering a request for judicial review of a decision by another Lord Ordinary to refuse a petition for judicial review. Reclaiming motions by April Prior, Gor

The Outer House of the Court of Session has continued a case involving a dispute based on the sale of a castle in Berwickshire and accompanying barony to allow the parties a proof before answer. Richard Syred and another purchased Ayton Castle, together with the Dignity of the Barony

The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has refused an appeal against conviction by a man convicted of assaulting his baby daughter between May and July 2017. The appellant, known as SI, submitted that the serious injuries could have happened while the child was being looked

The prospective purchaser of a heritage centre in South Lanarkshire has lost an appeal against the rejection of their breach of contract claim. Shine Properties Ltd contracted with the Biggar Museum Trust to purchase the property, a former church, in 2016. The sale never went through,

The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has quashed a verdict of guilty of culpable homicide returned against a co-accused in a murder case, replacing it with a verdict of guilty of assault. Weir MacKay was originally tried for murder along with co-accused Alan Doherty, who w

A property developer that granted an option to purchase land it owned next to Edinburgh Airport in favour of the airport has failed to establish that the option had not been validly exercised. New Ingliston Ltd granted the option to Edinburgh Airport Ltd in October 2001. The airport s

A bingo club operator’s tax appeal to the Supreme Court has been unanimously dismissed. Lord Leggatt gave the sole judgment, with which Lord Reed (President), Lord Hodge (Deputy President), Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lord Sales agreed.

The High Court of England and Wales has ruled that the operation of a compensation cap operated by the Pension Protection Fund to reduce the pensions of those below normal pension age was discriminatory on the grounds of age. Paul Hughes, along with 23 other individual claimants