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A man found guilty of having sex with a child who claimed that a sheriff’s decision to refuse to allow him to cross-examine the complainer on medical records which suggested that she had several previous sexual partners has had an appeal against his conviction refused. The Appeal Court of the High

A gamekeeper who was found guilty of killing a buzzard after a sheriff rejected his special defence of alibi has failed in an appeal against his conviction. By a majority of two-to-one, the Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal after ruling that the sheriff provided “adequate reasons” for acc

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Sheriff Craig Turnbull as Sheriff Principal of the Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, on the recommendation of the First Minister.

A man found guilty of assaulting and robbing a homeless person who claimed that the sheriff erred in repelling a “no case to answer” submission and that the sheriff “misdirected” the jury has failed in an appeal against conviction. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal after ruling th

The Criminal Appeal Court has issued an opinion clarifying the circumstances in which a sheriff can decline to accept the basis of a plea in mitigation in the absence of proof. The Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Carloway, sitting with Lord Malcolm, heard that in January 2015 at Inverness Sheriff Court, th

It has been brought to our attention that yesterday's story entitled “Part-time sheriff suspended over hedge fund probe” contained an inaccuracy. Mr Watson’s suspension was in respect of a court action by a liquidator for payment against a firm of solicitors of whom Mr Watson is a former partn

A personal injury sheriff has ordered a pursuer who abandoned an action against the distribution company that formerly employed him alleging he suffered psychiatric injury following a data breach to pay expenses to the defender after finding that he had raised a claim based on false evidence and mis

A sheriff has recommended in a fatal accident inquiry determination that the Scottish Ambulance Service takes measures to improve its telephony service. David McClenaghan, a manager with Park’s Motor Group, died in his office at Park’s Kia Showroom, Coatbridge on 26 August 2018. 

A sheriff has ordered that a company director who gave an undertaking not to act in that capacity in 2017 after failing to account for VAT and subsequently breached it by assuming de facto directorship of an Aberdeen logistics company said to have been run by his wife has been disqualified from acti

A sheriff has threatened to fine or even jail people who appear before him wearing shorts. Sheriff Christopher Shead took an accused to task at Falkirk Sheriff Court after he showed up at a sentencing hearing wearing grey cargo shorts, STV News reports.

A sheriff sitting in the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has quashed a decision refusing to grant an eviction order on the ground of the landlords’ financial hardship and directed the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to find that tacit relocation had ceased to operate in respect of the parties&rsq

A sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a care home resident with dementia who choked on her food after being left alone in her room with her breakfast has concluded that her death could have been avoided if she had been supervised while she was eating and more information ab

A sheriff sitting on the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has dismissed seven challenges to the refusal of property valuation changes sought by various Aberdeenshire businesses after a successful appeal against a decision to allow the challenges was made by the Assessor for Grampian Joint Valuation Board

A sheriff has ordered a joiner hired to fit a kitchen in East Kilbride to pay just over £20,000 to the homeowner after determining that he had failed to meet the implied standard of work by not building plumb and square plasterboard walls and dismissed a claim for the remaining balance due. Pu

A Glasgow sheriff has dismissed an action by a divorced husband against his solicitors seeking damages in excess of £137,000 after finding that he had failed to plead a relevant case to establish either negligence or breach of contract after they did not inform him he would be liable for Capit