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Aisha Anwar has been appointed sheriff principal for the South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway Sheriffdom and will take up her appointment on Wednesday. Sheriff Principal Anwar, who replaces Sheriff Principal Abercrombie, was appointed by Her Majesty The Queen on the recommendation of the First M

A homeowner who sued his former lawyers after they failed to advise him to include a survivorship clause when transferring the title of his property into the joint names of himself and his then fiancée, who later died and left her half-share to her children from a previous relationship, has h

A sheriff has expressed anger over the “deplorable” seven year wait for a fatal accident inquiry into a North Sea helicopter disaster. Four offshore workers were killed when a Super Puma helicopter crashed on its approach to Sumburgh airport in Shetland in August 2013.

Sheriff David Mackie, 66, has retired from the bench after 15 years at Alloa Sheriff Court. In an interview with the Alloa & Hillfoots Advertiser, Sheriff Mackie reflected on his journey to the bench.

A motorist who was fined £500 after being convicted of driving without a valid licence and without insurance has failed in an appeal to have the financial penalty reduced. The appellant claimed that the sentence imposed was “excessive” because it would take nearly two years to repa

It took "far too long" for a notice of a fatal accident inquiry to be lodged in relation to the Clutha helicopter disaster, a sheriff has said. Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull has made his determination into the incident which saw 10 people die when a helicopter, then carrying out duties on behalf

Sheriff Alastair Brown has presided over his final cases in Dundee ahead of his move to Dunfermline Sheriff Court. A resident sheriff at Dundee Sheriff Court for more than six years, he described his time in the city as both "challenging" and "rewarding", The Courier reports.

A sheriff has published his reasons for refusing an appeal by Loyalist groups against a Scottish local authority’s decision to change the routes of its marches to avoid Catholic churches. Sheriff Stuart Reid upheld the decision by Glasgow City Council to change the route of the

A sheriff has questioned why the Crown brought charges against a doctor who used force against a boy who was misbehaving, The Scotsman reports. Dr Alexander Waters, 45, pinched and pushed the six-year-old who was wrecking a bedroom with another child while the off-duty medic was looking after them.

A sheriff may rely on facts established at a hearing on a ground of referral before a Children’s Hearing when considering an application for a permanence order, appeal judges have ruled. The Inner House of the Court of Session refused a legal challenge by the mother of a child who wa

A sheriff was forced to sentence a man in the back of a prison van after he refused to leave the vehicle, The Times reports. Harrison Long, 28, had been brought to Selkirk Sheriff Court after having been found guilty of a machete attack.

A woman who appealed the granting of a contact order on the grounds that the sheriff had not ascribed appropriate weight to child evidence in light of expert evidence has had her appeal refused. The Sheriff Appeal Court, sitting in Edinburgh, heard an appeal by CM, the defender at first in

A sheriff has said the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General should experience work as ordinary prosecutors in a “Walmart approach” to prosecution, The Courier reports. Sheriff George Way was referring to a policy of the US retailer that sees senior managers spend a week per year on the sh

The Scotsman has published a full obituary of Sheriff Noel McPartlin. Born in Galashiels, the son of mill workers, Mr McPartlin graduated from Edinburgh University and was a solicitor in private practice for 12 years in Linlithgow, Stirling and Glasgow before being admitted to the Faculty of Advocat

The death has been announced of Noel McPartlin, who served 28 years as a sheriff until his retirement in 2011. He was 79.