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The Herald has published a full obituary of sheriff and historian David Buchanan Smith who died last month aged 79.

The Sheriff Appeal Court (SAC) (Civil) is providing a new facility to lodge motions to the court by email, opening up a simple and speedy procedure for court users. From 1 January 2016, there will be the capacity to intimate, oppose and lodge motions in the SAC by email which will also become the de

Sheriff Simon Collins QC A sheriff has criticised police officers over the death of an injured man two years ago who was put in police custody instead of being taken to hospital.

A sheriff has admonished a wheelchair user who fought with his family, after admitting he did not know what else to do with him. Robert Reid, 44, was let off the hook at Perth Sheriff Court by Sheriff Lindsay Foulis despite his previous convictions for domestic assault, theft and breach of the peace

A Slovakian man wanted by authorities in his home country to serve a prison sentence for a “joy-riding” offence which occurred more than a decade ago will not be extradited. A sheriff ruled that it would be “oppressive” to return him given the passage of time since he committed the “relati

Retired lawyer and sheriff William Francis Lunny, born 10 December 1938, has died at the age of 77. His varied career began when he commenced as a solicitor in private practice in Glasgow in 1961.

A man who settled his personal injury damages action has successfully appealed against a sheriff’s finding that no expenses were due to or by either party. Sheriff Principal Alastair Dunlop QC (pictured) found the defender liable to the pursuer in the expenses of the action after ruling that the s

A man charged with being in possession of a class A drug with intent to supply has had his challenge to a decision to postpone his trial for five months refused. It was argued that the sheriff’s decision was “oppressive, erroneous and contrary to law”, but the Criminal Appeal Court ruled that

A tenant who was caught growing cannabis in his flat but had an “otherwise unblemished record” will not be evicted after a sheriff refused the housing association’s attempt to recover possession of the property. Glasgow Housing Association raised court proceedings after the tenant Mark Stuart

Sheriff Kevin Drummond expressed his dismay yesterday when Peebles Sheriff Court was closed. The judge told a gathering of local lawyers that the Peebles court, which has existed since Medieval times, was a “a model for the provision of rural justice services across the country” given as

Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen (pictured) has been appointed as Queen’s Counsel by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of former first minister Alex Salmond. The sheriff principal for Lothian and Borders was nominated by the lord justice general, Lord Gill.

A sheriff has criticised prosecutors after he threw out a case in which a care worker allegedly spiked the drink of a man with severe learning difficulties using mayonnaise The Courier reports. The care worker, Mark Courage, offered to plead guilty to a charge of illtreating or wilfully neglecting t

Sheriff Graham Cox has died aged 81. Sheriff Cox was born in Newcastle in December 1933 and was brought up in Cambuslang until he moved to Dundee at the age of 15.

The expansion to the Sheriff Court of the presumption in favour of the pre-recording of evidence for under 16s in certain solemn cases, in terms of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019, will come into effect on 30 March 2026. To support the court process by which evidence