Case Reports

A Hebridean crofting couple who raised an action for damages after a neighbours’ bull strayed onto their land and impregnated their pedigree cow have had their claim ...

A homeowner who was unable to maintain his monthly mortgage payments has successfully challenged his lender’s bid to repossess the property after appealing against a sheriff’s decision ...

A Scottish farming business is entitled to repayment of VAT paid in purchasing entitlements to an EU farm subsidy, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. The justices unanimously dismissed an ...

An Indian man whose application for leave to remain in the UK based on his marriage to a British woman was refused has successfully challenged the decision. ...

Penalties imposed by Revenue Scotland (RS) over the late filing of a land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) return have been quashed after the tax agency failed to produce ...

A long-term prisoner who claimed that the prison authorities acted “unlawfully” in failing to progress his application for home detention curfew has had his legal challenge dismissed. ...

A French national whose application for homelessness assistance was rejected by a Scottish local authority has had a petition for judicial review of the decision dismissed. Augustin-Roger ...

A teacher who was “excluded” from a school after raising a personal injury action against a Scottish local authority following a fall at work, and then sought ...

A man found guilty of rape and sexual assault who claimed that the two offences were too dissimilar for the doctrine of “mutual corroboration” to apply has ...

A man who was jailed for four-and-a-half years for selling so-called “legal highs” has had his sentence reduced following an appeal. Liston Pacitti and his co-accused Paul Brocklehurst ...

An appeal by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions over a detail of a personal independence payment (PIP) claim has succeeded as justices in the Supreme ...

A man found guilty of assault with a knife who claimed he suffered a “miscarriage of justice” after it emerged that a juror had “googled” his name ...

A Hibernian fan who was jailed for confronting Rangers captain James Tavernier during a match has failed in an appeal to have his custodial term quashed. Cameron ...

A Vietnamese man who was jailed for three years after admitting being involved in a cannabis growing operation has had an appeal against his sentence rejected. Trung ...

Two teenagers convicted of murder have had the punishments parts of their life sentences reduced following an appeal. Daniel Kinlan and Darren Boland, who were sentenced to detention for ...