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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 life with punishment parts of 10 years and nine months and nine years and 11 months respectively for th

A police officer found guilty of sexual offences whose application to retire on the grounds of permanent disablement was refused by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has had a legal challenge against the decision dismissed. The officer raised judicial review proceedings after the SPA dec

A man accused of sexual offences against his daughter has successfully challenged an attempt by prosecutors to rely on his admissions to a children’s hearing as evidence to corroborate the charges in the criminal proceedings against him. In the first case of its kind, a High Court ju

A sheriff’s decision not to impose a custodial sentence on a father-of-three who was convicted of “significant and serious” domestic abuse offences after repeatedly assaulting his wife and two daughters over several years was not “unduly lenient”, appeal judges have rul

A former member of the armed forces found guilty of the rape of two ex-partners has had an appeal against his sentence dismissed. John Falconer, who was convicted of three charges of rape and sentenced to eight years with an extension period of three years, claimed that the sentence imposed was &ldq

A Singapore-based banker who raised an action for damages in Scotland following a refusal by the Court of Appeal in London to refer a question of EU law to the European Court of Justice, after his claim for unfair dismissal in the UK employment tribunal was rejected on the grounds that the tribunal

Two cyclists who fell from their bikes while crossing tram tracks in Edinburgh have been awarded undisclosed damages. Elizabeth Fairley and Ian Lowdean sued Edinburgh Trams Limited, Transport Initiatives Edinburgh and Edinburgh City Council after being injured in f

There is a right of privacy in the common law of Scotland, a Court of Session judge has ruled. The court held for the first time that the common law right exists in Scots law, and that its nature and scope is similar to that protected under article 8 of the European Convention on Huma

A Reporter for the Scottish Ministers was found to have erred in law by accepting without question the findings of the planning authority regarding the quantity of effective housing land supply in the area. The Inner House of the Court of Session quashed the Reporter’s decision to refuse an ap

An employer which was found to have “victimised” a former employee after sifting out her application for a job has successfully challenged a tribunal’s decision to uphold her claim, after the employment judge “fell fully asleep not once but twice” during the hearing. Th

The Crown has successfully appealed against a trial judge’s decision to sustain a “no case to answer” submission by a man accused of the abduction, assault and rape of his partner, who had given evidence that she “consented” to sex “but just to calm him down&rdquo

Appeal judges have criticised a sheriff’s decision to allow the removal of a screen behind which a domestic abuse victim had given evidence against her former partner in order for a dock identification to take place. Vulnerable witnesses are entitled to give their evidence from behind a screen

Prosecutors have successfully challenged a judge’s decision to uphold a “no case to answer” submission made during a rape trial. The trial judge held that the Crown could not prove by corroborated evidence that the complainer had been asleep during the act of intercourse,

A mental health nurse who was struck-off has had an application to appeal against the decision rejected because it was lodged six days after the expiry of the statutory time limit. The Inner House of the Court of Session refused to allow the case to proceed despite the “relatively sh

A man found guilty of two charges of rape who claimed that the trial judge “distracted” the jury by giving an “inappropriate and unnecessary” direction on the issue of reasonable belief of consent has had an appeal against his convicted rejected. The Appeal Court of the