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A sheriff took the unusual step yesterday of moving his courtroom to a van in the car park of the court. Sheriff Michael Wood at Perth Sheriff Court, which makes its second appearance in our “And finally” section (click here for the first), convened the court in the back of a G4S van to conduct

The All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court has published a judgment which deals with the approach to be taken for certification of skilled witnesses. The sheriff in the case ofMargaret Hunter v East Lothian Council held that while the witness was “skilled”, the relevance of his skill

A former part-time sheriff who experienced “despair, distrust and desolation” following the breakdown of his marriage has been given three months to allow him and his ex-wife to reach an agreement over their finances after she was granted a divorce without him knowing about it. Raj Jandoo, who r

A deputy sheriff who was caught on his own body camera stealing $200 from a drunk driving suspect has been branded a "thieving idiot" by his boss. Volusia County sheriff's deputy John Braman, resigned from his $60,000 a year job on Monday after the State attorney's office released a video of the off

A decision that a sheriff’s finding of contempt of court and subsequent sentence for breach of interdict were reviewable only by petition to the “nobile officium” has been overruled. A five-judge bench in the Inner House of the Court of Session held that a previous case in which it had been he

A Wisconsin sheriff issued himself with a parking ticket after parking his car in a handicap spot. David Clarke, sheriff of Milwaukee County, gave himself the ticket after a colleague failed to move the vehicle.

A recent drug bust saw a sheriff arrest his own daughter for alleged possession of methamphetamine. “Methamphetamine does not discriminate and neither do we,” said Florida's Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith in a Facebook post.

Prison authorities have successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to allow a full hearing in a case brought by a former inmate who claimed he was "wrongfully" recalled to custody after being released on home detention curfew. John Paton raised an action for damages for the “wrong

Appeal judges have criticised a sheriff’s decision to allow the removal of a screen behind which a domestic abuse victim had given evidence against her former partner in order for a dock identification to take place. Vulnerable witnesses are entitled to give their evidence from behind a screen

Prosecutors have successfully appealed against a sheriff’s decision to acquit a landlord accused of racially aggravated harassment after he called a tenant a “f*cking black bastard”. The sheriff acquitted the respondent because the Crown failed to lead any evidence to sho

A dog-owner who challenged a sheriff’s decision to order the destruction of her pet Bullmastiff after it attacked a passer-by and another dog has had her appeal dismissed. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary rejected the argument that the sheriff ought to have imposed a

A married couple who challenged a sheriff’s decision to grant a permanence order in respect of their youngest of four children following their conviction for assaulting her three older siblings have had their appeal rejected. The appellant’s claimed that the sheriff erred in his assessment of th

A tenant who challenged a sheriff’s decision that he was liable to pay his former landlord two months’ unpaid rent has had his appeal dismissed. The Sheriff Appeal Court upheld the sheriff’s ruling that the landlord’s breach of certain statutory obligations did not render the lease agreement

A woman who challenged a sheriff’s order to appoint a local authority social worker as her brother’s guardian has had her appeal against the decision dismissed. The Inner House of the Court of Session refused the appeal after rejecting the appellant’s argument that the mental health officer wh