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A tenant ordered to pay over £11,000 in rent arrears from September 2021 until 2023 to his former landlord has lost an appeal against the First-tier Tribunal’s decision to make the award against him. He rented a property in Airdrie from Celtad Ltd from January 2020, and left the property

A Scottish local authority has been granted decree of absolvitor in an action by an asylum seeker who sought to establish that he had been aged under 18 when first accommodated by the authority. Abdraman Ali Ahmat raised an action against Aberdeenshire Council seeking declarator that his date of bir

Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882. David J Black reminds us just how famous Burns was. See part one here.

Ewan Kennedy explores the connections between our national bard and our other national language. In Ayrshire, Gaelic had already largely died out before Burns was born in 1759. His Jacobite father had North East ancestry and didn’t have the language. While the Ayrshire Scots that Burns spoke i

A Caithness man who subjected women to torture and degrading treatment in an underground “tomb” chamber at his remote cabin home and at other locations abroad has been made subject to a five-year Trafficking and Exploitation Order under section 26 of the Human Trafficking and Exploitatio

An East Kilbride sheriff has dismissed a streamlined eviction action by a housing association against a tenant convicted of a drug supply offence after finding it would be disproportionate to evict him. East Kilbride Housing Association raised the action against its tenant T, who resisted the evicti

A sheriff of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has remitted three applications by the owners of holiday chalets on a lochside estate concerning alleged breaches of property factor duties to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland after finding that the chalets could be considered residential properties f

I recently had the opportunity to visit the Titanic Wales Exhibition and found myself being filled with a mixture of curiosity and solemnity as I checked in and made my way to the exhibition room, writes Christina Watts of the Intellectual Property Office. Upon arrival, I received a lifelike ‘

A former tennis player who claimed a newspaper had defamed him in a story that mentioned his tax affairs has failed in his Article 8 appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The court found that as the newspaper article had been a mixture of value judgment and supported factual statements, it h