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The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld the decision of a summary sheriff that evidence of receipt of a service notice was necessary with any execution of postal service in simple procedure actions where no response is made by the respondent party. Appellant Cabot Financial (UK) Ltd sought decree of pay

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by Scottish Water against a sheriff’s determination that it was liable for the severe illness of a herd of cattle on a farm on the Isle of Lewis as alleged by the farm’s proprietor after a re-examination of the evidence following an inadequ

An employment judge has refused to strike out a sex discrimination claim by an employee of NHS Lothian but has ordered her to pay a deposit of £1,000 in order to continue her case. Claimant Mrs M Hutton argued that she was carrying out work equal to a male comparator for less pay and thus was

The Inner House of the Court of Session has found that the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is not entitled to apply for the production and delivery of privileged legal documents from a solicitor under section 17 of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007. The matter arose followi

An appeal by a Polish citizen against a sheriff’s order to extradite him to Poland to serve a suspended prison sentence for mobile phone robberies he committed as a teenager has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Adam Osipczuk sought to argue that he was not a fugitive within the le

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has rejected a case by a company that bought a house on the island of Sanday in the Orkney Islands alleging abusive practices by the former directors of a local haulage firm in conjunction with the local council and its wholly owned ferry subsidiary. Blue Planet Holdi

A Lord Ordinary has refused a judicial review petition challenging a nil valuation of company shares by an independent chartered accountant for the purposes of paying out a former shareholder. David Maguire, a former shareholder of 5PM Ltd, challenged the decision of Stewart MacDonald CA to ascribe

An appeal by a man who described himself as suffering from a mental disorder seeking damages for medical negligence has lost an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to delete certain averments from probation in the Sheriff Appeal Court. DD, the pursuer in an action against NHS Fife Health Board

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal against a sheriff’s interlocutor allowing the addition of a crave to prove the tenor of a letter said to alter the terms of a deceased man’s will in a dispute between his four children. Elizabeth Skelton, the first defender in an action rais

A Pakistani woman who was refused clearance for a two-month UK visitor visa to visit her daughter in Glasgow has succeeded in having the decision reduced after a judicial review petition to the Outer House of the Court of Session. Petitioner Ghulam Sughra argued that the Entry Clearance Officer acti

A corporate landlord that was refused an award of £950 for repair of a door damaged by police officers executing a drugs search warrant has successfully had the decision re-made by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland.

A doctor who had a conditions order against him extended an additional six months after he was tried and acquitted for rape has successfully had the order recalled after an appeal to the Inner House of the Court of Session. The General Medical Council had brought a petition in June 2022 seeking to e

An employee of Marine Scotland who was injured aboard a multi-purpose vessel has been awarded £4,273 in damages by a sheriff after it was found he was partially responsible for the accident. Paul Farley, who was employed as an Able Seaman aboard MPV Hirta on a fixed term appointment, argued th

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined Elite Sports, JD Sports and Rangers FC for a total of more than £2 million for colluding on price fixing of Rangers FC merchandise. The CMA found that Elite Sports and JD Sports broke competition law by fixing the retail prices of a nu

A sheriff in Hamilton Sheriff Court has allowed a proof in an action of multiplepoinding raised by a bank to determine the entitlement of the Crown Office and a convicted fraudster to funds raised from the sale of a property in East Kilbride after the making of a proceeds of crime order against that