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A man who was given a non-harassment order (NHO) when his sentence was deferred for “good behaviour” after he was found guilty of “threatening or abusive behaviour” likely to cause “fear or alarm” has had an appeal against the order dismissed. The appellant challenged the competency of t

A provision in criminal proceedings which allows a party to serve a statement of uncontroversial evidence (SUE) on the other party is available in extradition proceedings, a sheriff has ruled. Sheriff Nigel Ross held that the procedure outlined in section 258 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act

A man wanted by authorities in the United States of America to face bomb threat charges will not be extradited because of his failing health, a court has ruled. Prosecutors in the US wanted “tartan terrorist”, referred to as "SN" arrested and extradited to America to face trial over allegations

A woman accused of smashing the windscreen of a car driven by her estranged partner has been found guilty of vandalism after a sheriff ruled that her belief that they were the joint owners of the vehicle was no defence to the statutory charge of wilfully or recklessly damaging property belonging to

The sister of a man with severe learning difficulties has failed in an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to appoint a local authority social worker as welfare guardian to her brother. The woman complained that the mental health officer who prepared a report which favoured the council’s applica

The judgment in a case in which snack van operators successfully challenged a Scottish local authority ban which prevented them from trading near schools has been published. A number of street traders sought to reverse a decision of the defender, North Lanarkshire Council, to prohibit snack vans sel

A Polish national convicted of a series of offences and accused of other crimes in his home country who claimed that extradition to Poland would breach his human rights has had his legal challenge dismissed in a test case. Patryk Maciejec, 27, argued that new laws and procedures brought in by t

A mother who was caught trying to smuggle cannabis from the Netherlands into Germany in what a sheriff described as a “big mistake which has come back to haunt her” will not be extradited to serve a prison sentence. The sheriff discharged a European Arrest Warrant which was issued by the German

A sheriff’s decision not to impose a custodial sentence on a father-of-three who was convicted of “significant and serious” domestic abuse offences after repeatedly assaulting his wife and two daughters over several years was not “unduly lenient”, appeal judges have rul

A sheriff has banned a man from shouting in his own flat. Solicitor Anika Jethwa told Dundee Sheriff Court that Gerrard Kelly, 41, shouts as a coping mechanism to deal with his “difficulties”.

A sheriff in Alabama has bought a beach house with cash budgeted for prisoners' food under a law dating back to the 1930s. Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin legally pocketed $750,000 from the fund for prisoners' food provision and then bought a $740,000 beach house, a reporter from The Birmingham

A sheriff’s decision to sustain a plea in bar of trial based upon the “entrapment” by police of a teacher accused of seeking to engage in sexual activity with a child has been upheld after appeal judges refused an appeal by the Crown. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that

Inverness Sheriff Court has paid tribute to Golspie procurator fiscal Alasdair MacDonald, who has passed away at the age of 60, The Northern Timesreports. Mr MacDonald passed away after a brief battle with cancer, his funeral was held at the Fountain Road Church Hall, Golspie last week.

A sheriff has ruled that “human error” was responsible for the death of a pensioner who suffered inflammation of the lungs and ahypoglycaemic brain injury after being given the wrong medication by her pharmacy. Margaret Forrest, 86, contracted bronchopneumonia and suffered cardiac amyloidosis as

Aberdeen Sheriff Court's patience with a serial bird thief ran out after he was convicted of stealing pigeons shortly after being offered an olive branch in a similar case. Dean Wells, 23, was last year convicted of the theft of 24 racing pigeons from an Aberdeen pensioner's loft.