Case Reports

A motorist found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving who claimed that he “blacked out” behind the wheel as a result of medication he was prescribed ...

A company set up to deliver a number of new schools and community centres in North Lanarkshire that sued a construction company over defects in the development ...

The Upper Tribunal for Scotland refused an appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber), which had rejected the tenant’s claim after finding that ...

A man found guilty of murdering his friend after causing him to fall down a flight of stairs and repeatedly kicking and stamping on his head and ...

A homeowner who sued his former lawyers after they failed to advise him to include a survivorship clause when transferring the title of his property into the ...

A property developer who claimed that a Scottish local authority’s decision to demolish a leisure centre was “unlawful” has had his legal challenge dismissed. A judge in ...

The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court held that the concept of “art and part guilt” had “no part to play” in establishing the statutory offence under section 4(3)(b) ...

A Scots lawyer who became embroiled in a “tense and heated” exchange of emails with a former client in which the solicitor said “what would you expect ...

A student from Afghanistan who has lived in the UK for more than five years has had a legal challenge against a decision to refuse her application ...

A man who was found guilty of breaking into a dead person’s home and stealing a quantity of jewellery after his DNA was found on a torch ...

A Scots lawyer who published a series of comments on social media referring to Orange Walks in “discriminatory, sectarian, derogatory, and offensive” terms has been fined £6,000. ...

A woman who sued her former partner for more than £40,000 following the sale of their jointly owned home, claiming that he had agreed not to take ...

The family of a woman who was killed in a road traffic accident have been granted a jury trial in a civil action against the motorist who ...

The Supreme Court has refused to accept an application from the Attorney General for Northern Ireland to refer what he said was a “devolution issue” under the Northern ...

A prisoner who claimed that prison authorities breached his human rights by opening a letter addressed to him has had his petition for judicial review dismissed as ...