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The Sheriff Court backlog worsened by the pandemic is likely to last for another five years, prosecutors have warned. Minutes from a Crown Office meeting indicate that officials believe that it will be a "challenging area of business for the next five years or so".

The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld a conviction under section 2(1) of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 after an appeal by a man who was found guilty of uploading images of his former partner to a swingers’ website while they were still together. DF was sentenced to a

A Dunfermline sheriff has dismissed an action by a former employee of a student housing provider who alleged that his employer had breached UK GDPR rules when processing his personal data in the context of defending tribunal proceedings brought by another employee. Courtney Riley, who was employed b

A Sheriff Principal has ruled that it is possible to appeal against a refusal to grant an application for recall in simple procedure actions after the issue was raised in an action by a couple against a plasterer for allegedly defective work. Appellant David Bell argued that the sheriff had erred in

Sheriff Alexander B Wilkinson KC passed away on 17 January at the age of 90. He was a former president of the Sheriffs Association in Scotland and was co-author of the first edition of The Law Relating to Parent & Child in Scotland and acted as a consultant on the second edition. "His influence

Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull has been appointed as a senator of the College of Justice in one of a number of judicial appointments made by His Majesty The King on the recommendation of the first minister. The new judge will take up post on 17 May 2023.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal against a sheriff’s decision that an application for a financial award by a former cohabitant was made timeously by virtue of being lodged with the sheriff court before the deadline, even if it had not been served on the defender in that period. P

The sheriff who held shares in Rangers FC and who granted numerous warrants as part of the botched police investigation into the club is to retire, The Times reports. David Grier, 61, a consultant with the financial firm Duff & Phelps, had lodged a formal complaint against Sheriff Lindsay Wood w

Westwater Advocates' Ian Sharpe has succeeded in in the Sheriff Appeal Court case of East Lothian Council v YL and WBL and ML and RL. This was an appeal against the making of an ancillary order in respect of contact in a permanence order without authority to adopt at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 28 Ma

A man convicted under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 for loitering near the primary school where his child attended while his ex-partner was there to collect her has had his conviction quashed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Appellant Scotland Walker argued that the trial sheriff had erred in r

A Hamilton sheriff has allowed for a personal injury action by a woman who sought damages from her husband on the ground that he raped her to proceed despite it falling outside of the normal three-year time limit on such actions. Pursuer AM sought permission for the action under section 19A of the P

A Stornoway sheriff has allowed a proof in a dispute between an Aberdeen firm of solicitors and their commercial landlord over whether they had validly terminated the lease of their business premises. Iain Hingston, the sole director of Hingston’s Law Ltd, along with employees Graeme Murray an

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

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

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