Lord Carloway The Criminal Sheriff Appeal Court and Sheriff Personal Injury Court have begun operating in Edinburgh as part of an overhaul of Scotland's courts system.
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Staff and members of the legal profession gathered to say farewell to Sheriff Lindsay Foulis, who has retired after 20 years on the bench. Sheriff Principal Marysia Lewis paid tribute to the outgoing sheriff while the Society of Procurators and Solicitors in the City and County of Perth also th
A fresh appeal diet before the Sheriff Appeal Court was assigned yesterday by Sheriff Principal Turnbull in PRA Group (UK) Ltd v MacPherson, for 23 August 2018. The new diet will allow time for the appellant's civil legal aid application to be determined by the Scottish Legal Aid Board.
The death has been announced of Muir Russell QC, who served as a sheriff at Aberdeen for 20 years. He was 92. Albert Muir Galloway Russell, son of a judge, Lord Russell, was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1951, after serving as a lieutenant in the Scots Guards. He took silk in 1965 and was
A sheriff has ruled that a company acting as trustee for the benefit of a members’ club for Scots who had time shares in a Tenerife resort had not agreed to resign as trustee in a video call in October 2023 and refused to grant specific implement ordering it to honour the alleged contract. Clu
A Dundee woman who sold jewellery and ornaments online made from illegally traded ivory taken from the tusks of elephants has been fined £1,400. Joyce Bell, 67, made money from selling the carved ivory items to customers, many in China, between 2016 to 2022.
A Scots lawyer who acted in child contact and contempt of court proceedings for a former contestant on the BBC reality show The Apprentice has been found guilty of professional misconduct. Jane Steer, 45, was censured by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) after she notarised an af
A Scots lawyer who was awarded £150,000 after suing a former client, but later saw the decision overturned after a judge ruled that the initial writ was not validly served because the solicitor had been suspended from practising, has failed in an appeal. Judges in the Inner House of the Court of Se
A Scots lawyer who removed files from her firm’s office over fears her fellow partner in the business may be made bankrupt and following a breakdown in their working relationship has been found not guilty of professional misconduct. Lynsey McLean decided to take matters into her own hands and remo
A sheriff has dismissed a simple procedure claim arising from rent arrears from a terminated private residential tenancy after rejecting a submission from the landlord, based on information obtained using AI, that the sheriff had jurisdiction if the tenancy had concluded prior to the raising of the
A sheriff has made a joint residence order in respect of a four-year-old child due to start primary school contrary to the views of a child welfare reporter and the child herself after finding that the reporter’s conclusions failed to give adequate weight to the position of the pursuer. Pursue
Sheriff Wendy Sheehan has stepped down as president of the Sheriffs and Summary Sheriffs Association (SSSA) following an unprecedented two terms in the role. Sheriff Sheehan, who was the first female president of the association, stepped down at its AGM in Edinburgh on 15 March. She will be succeede
Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull is to be appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice next year. On his appointment, Sheriff Principal Aisha Anwar, currently the sheriff principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, will transfer to his current Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin.
If Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC (pictured) was looking for variety and a change of scenery in her job, she has certainly found it. Sheriff Drummond, based in Tayside, Central and Fife, will be adding to her shrieval duties with her new appointment as Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal in the Terr
A British citizen whose extradition was sought by the US authorities over alleged fraud has had his ECHR appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court. Lord Reed gave the sole judgment, with which Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens agreed.
