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A man who was fined after being found guilty of sexual assault has successfully challenged his automatic five-year registration as a sex offender. The Sheriff Appeal Court ruled that the notification requirements imposed for an offence which the sheriff considered to be “at the lower end of the sc

The death has been announced of Ian Simpson QC, who served 18 years as a sheriff and was also a temporary judge before he retired. He was 68. Sheriff Simpson was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1974, and took silk in 2005.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has overturned a sheriff’s decision to refuse sanction for counsel in a summary cause action arising from a road traffic accident. The court held that the sheriff erred by failing to give sufficient weight to the “importance” of the case to the pursuer.

The death has been announced of Douglas Risk QC, former Sheriff Principal of Grampian, Highland and Islands. He was 76. Mr Risk was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1966, and was appointed a sheriff in 1977, serving in Lothian and Borders before moving to Grampian, Highland and Islands.

A man who was jailed for the theft of a car and the reset of another vehicle has successfully appealed against a sheriff’s decision to impose a supervised release order. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that the imposition of the order on a long-term prisoner, which was due t

A sheriff principal has said he included future loss in the calculation of the success fee in his review of the civil litigation costs regime because to exclude it would, among other things, incentivise delay. Holyrood’s Justice Committee took evidence on the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group P

A motorist who was fined and had his licence endorsed after pleading guilty to speeding has successfully appealed against a decision by appeal sheriffs to increase the financial penalty imposed. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that the Sheriff Appeal Court “erred in law” i

Sheriff Anwar A letter written by a sheriff to the children involved in a family law case has taken centre stage at the Edinburgh International Festival this week.

A man who refused to be treated by an optician following the Manchester terrorist attack because she was not white has been rebuked by a sheriff, The Scotsman reports. Eric Greene, 58, from Carluke, Lanarkshire, went to Specsavers in Lanark where he told trainee optician, Sarah Kerr, who is of India

A man found guilty of being concerned in the supply of cocaine who claimed that the sheriff misdirected the jury over how they were to treat opinion evidence from a police officer has had an appeal against his conviction refused. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary agreed that the sheri

Sheriff Anwar A sheriff has published a Note that includes a letter to two children in a contact case in which the court held the pursuer (father) was entitled to indirect contact.

Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen QC The Sheriff Appeal Court is to sit in Glasgow for the first time on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 August 2017.

Sheriff Elizabeth Munro of Dundee Sheriff Court passed away yesterday evening at the age of 64. A spokesperson for the Judicial Office for Scotland said: “It is with great sadness that the Judicial Office has learned of the untimely death of Sheriff Elizabeth Munro. She was 64.

A sheriff in Dundee went on a tongue-in-cheek rant about Rangers Football Club during an assault trial, the Evening Telegraph reports. Sheriff George Way was presiding over the case of William Smith, 44, who had admitted an assault charge at his home in May.

A sheriff has ruled that a family home that was built on a plot of land owned by one party to a marriage but which was not matrimonial property could be valued separately from the land for the purposes of calculating financial provision on divorce. The pursuer claimed that when the house was built o