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The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that the required nine-month devilling period prior to becoming a fully qualified advocate does not interrupt the continuous 10-year period for which a person requires to be legally qualified in order to become a sheriff in Scotland. The question aro

An Edinburgh woman who made an out of catchment placement request for her child after they were bullied at their secondary school has lost a Sheriff Court appeal against the refusal of the request by her local education authority. The pursuer, N, had previously had an appeal heard by the City of Edi

An appeal by the Chief Constable of Police Scotland seeking her removal from an action by a scaffolding hire company for declarator and recovery of allegedly stolen goods from a company hired to store them has been allowed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. The Chief Constable was originally called as a t

The Sheriff Appeal Court has reduced the amount payable by a joiner who failed to meet quality of work standards in an attic conversion job by £12,000 after he challenged the sheriff’s decision to award decree in favour of the pursuers. Martin Cherrie and Amy Paterson initially raised an

The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that a female lawyer who sought to sue a sheriff for sexual harassment could not also sue the lord advocate on the basis of vicarious liability on the part of the Crown. It was alleged by the anonymous pursuer, X, that Sheriff John Brown had touched

A Dundee lawyer has been found guilty of defrauding a client out of nearly £3,000.

An appeal by the owner of an American Bulldog who was ordered to pay a fine and have his dog destroyed after it attacked another dog while off its leash has been refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. James Murdoch, the owner of a microchipped America Bulldog named Storm, argued that the sheriff was n

A Jedburgh sheriff has ruled that a homemade will by a woman that was signed only at the front of the document could not be cured by the court of defects that removed its testamentary effect. Pursuers Christopher Knapman and Patrick Wadeson sought to cure defects of execution in the purported will o

A man who had decree by default granted against him after he walked out of court during a diet of debate has lost a Sheriff Appeal Court challenge against the sheriff’s decision. Appellant Mohammed Aslam was the defender in an action raised in Glasgow Sheriff Court by the Royal Bank of Scotlan

A couple who moved into a property in order to redecorate it for its owners and subsequently refused to move out have lost an appeal against a sheriff’s decision that they occupied the property under a licence agreement rather than a private residential tenancy. Original defenders Jamie and Lo

An appeal to the Sheriff Appeal Court by a mother involved in a referral to a children’s hearing based on errors in the sheriff’s approach to evidence has been largely refused apart from one point conceded by the sheriff. It was argued by the appellant CB that the proceedings as a whole

An Edinburgh man who was convicted of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner after he entered a flat one floor above his own one while naked has had his conviction quashed after the Sheriff Appeal Court accepted his appeal by stated case. It was argued by KWM that the sheriff had erred in conv

A sheriff has ruled that the purported assignee of a standard security had no title to enforce it against the original granter and was in breach of court rules by not lodging an unredacted version of the assignation it founded upon with the court. Giovanni Guidi granted a registered standard securit

The Sheriff Appeal Court has reduced the sentence of a man convicted of sexually touching a teenager after he appealed against his sentence and lodged a bill of suspension seeking to suspend the sentence imposed by the trial sheriff. William Hepburn, aged 79 at sentencing, was originally s

The brother of a deceased man who left the majority of his estate to his carer has failed to appeal a sheriff’s decision not to reduce the deceased’s last will in the Civil Division of the Sheriff Appeal Court. John Thompson, the pursuer and appellant, originally raised the action s