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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 ‘

An NHS nurse who was hit by a falling chisel dropped by workers on the roof of her house and developed tinnitus, head trauma, and PTSD, has been awarded over £88,000 in damages after raising a claim in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Tracy Mcfadyean, who was employed as an orthopaedic

An Aberdeen sheriff has granted the trustee in sequestration of the estates of a married couple authority to sell their family home after they failed to engage with the sequestration process for over five years. Richard Bathgate, who became the trustee in sequestration following the retirement of th

A former MSP has lost a case against Glasgow City Council in which he alleged that it had acted unlawfully in permanently excluding him from being employed by them as a social worker on the basis that doing so would present an unacceptable level of risk. Tommy Sheridan, who served as an MSP from 199

A man who had a wisdom tooth unsuccessfully extracted and required to have surgery performed on his mouth has lost a personal injury case against the dentist who originally attempted the extraction after it was found that his actions were not outwith the range of reasonable options available in the

Michael Upton marks the 150th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson calling to the Scottish bar.

A lord ordinary has refused a judicial review application by the “limbs in the loch” killer based on a February 2024 decision of the Parole Board for Scotland to again refuse to release him on licence after finding that he still presented a risk to the public. William Beggs, who was conv

A sheriff has dismissed a simple procedure claim for an alleged unpaid sum of £3,600 raised by a radio station operator against a glamping business that cancelled its advertising contract with the station after the business was misnamed during radio broadcasts, after finding that the responden

Elaine Motion, one of Scotland's leading litigation lawyers, has reflected on some of the "extraordinary" cases she has been involved with as she retires after more than 30 years with Balfour and Manson. The civil liberties and human rights specialist is best-known for the 'Brexit cases' – whi