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A sheriff has refused a request for contact by the father of a 10-year-old boy whose mother separated from him following two instances of assault in 2018 after finding that it would not be in the child’s best interests for contact to resume. Pursuer G sought a residence order in respect of the

A sheriff has dismissed a claim by a partnership seeking damages from their insurance broker on the basis that their provision of false information had led to an insurance claim for fire damage being refused after finding that the specification of causation of loss was insufficient to meet the test

A sheriff has found that a servitude of fuel storage established by the placement of a coal bunker in the courtyard of one property to service another had not been unduly extended by the addition of gas canisters following a change to the property’s heating system, after a dispute arose betwee

A sheriff has granted division and sale of a matrimonial home at the instance of a divorcing husband who left the property after his marriage broke down after finding that the needs of the couple’s 14-year-old child did not prevent the property from being sold. Pursuer F and defender T separat

An Airdrie sheriff has made a residence order in favour of the mother of three children who fled the family home as a result of abuse towards the children and herself, which resulted in two criminal convictions in 2025, but allowed the father to have indirect contact by email. Pursuer CT, who had an

A Livingston sheriff has ordered the removal of the occupant of a house formerly subject to a Scottish Secure Tenancy, whose mother had been the tenant until July 2023, after finding that he had not entered into a new oral tenancy with the landlord in his correspondence with them in the following mo

Renovation and safety works at Ayr Sheriff Court have already cost more than £250,000, with further work still to be completed. A freedom of information request by the Ayr Advertiser shows that £262,898 has been spent across two phases of repairs at the scaffolded court building, and tha

A sheriff has granted decree of absolvitor in a dispute between two sisters over whether a letter dated seven years after their mother’s will had altered it to remove one of them from the will after ruling that the letter was not an informal codicil. Pursuer Lois Boyd and defender Lora Boyd we

An Oban sheriff conducting a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the deaths of two pensioners who were assaulted by a man with a mental disorder has declined to make any recommendations for systemic improvements in Police Scotland and NHS Highlands and Islands after concluding that there were no precautions

A Livingston sheriff who heard a preliminary proof in an action for child contact has made an ex tempore judgment finding that the father seeking the contact order had sexually abused his child once in August 2020 and then again at a contact visit in March 2021, with the action later being dismissed

A Forfar sheriff has ordered that two children of a separated cohabiting couple should attend a primary school in Dunfermline at which their mother was now employed full-time after both parties sought competing specific issue orders to resolve a dispute over the children’s schooling following

A sheriff has granted an application by a single woman in her late forties to adopt a four-year-old child and dispensed with the consent of her parents after determining that they would be unable to satisfactorily discharge their responsibilities for the foreseeable future and the orders they propos

A sheriff has reduced the price payable for an asbestos removal service after a business contracted by the owner of a derelict farm building but ordered the customer to pay the remaining outstanding amount after finding that the cleaning company had breached the requirement to exercise reasonable ca

A Stirling sheriff has granted decree of divorce on the ground of irretrievable breakdown between a couple who occupied a rented council property after a physical altercation in January 2024 but refused to allow a transfer of the tenancy from the defender to the pursuer after finding her case to be

A sheriff has ordered the payment of just over £436,000 by the stepmother of a pursuer who was due to receive funds under two testamentary trusts set up by his paternal grandparents after finding that she had breached fiduciary duties on behalf of a company set up by his father by allowing fal