The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a landowner who was awarded £772 to repair damage caused to his land by his neighbour’s cattle after finding that the sheriff was correct not to allow him to lodge additional claim forms for more damages that had not been correctly intima
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A runaway zebra has been caught by police and airlifted back to his owner after absconding for over a week. Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee said the zebra, named Ed, was finally tracked down on Sunday after several sightings.
A Hamilton sheriff has found that a defender in an action for disqualification from directorship was in contempt of court after he took photographs of witnesses for the pursuer and posted them alongside derogatory comments about the weight and integrity of one of them on two social media accounts. G
A personal injury sheriff has awarded just over £6,000 to a groundworker who was injured in a collision between a car and a van in which he was a passenger after finding that the driver acted negligently in his response to an ambulance attempting to join the dual carriageway. Pursuer Stephen L
A sheriff of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has remitted three applications by the owners of holiday chalets on a lochside estate concerning alleged breaches of property factor duties to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland after finding that the chalets could be considered residential properties f
A sheriff has ordered a company and its sole director to pay the excess monies from the sale of commercial premises to satisfy a secured debt to the premises’ original owner after he raised an action for accounting and payment seeking to enforce an agreement he had with them regarding the sale
A sheriff in the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has allowed an appeal against a Low Emission Zone penalty charge notice after finding that the issuing authority had not provided sufficient evidence of the vehicle’s non-compliance, and remitted the case to the First-tier Tribunal. Damion Spittles
A Falkirk sheriff has appointed for proof an action by a couple against their former solicitors who failed to inform them of a housing proposal for ground next to their new home after finding that they had a relevant case for professional negligence. Fraser and Vivian Allison instructed Russel &
A monkey in a pink tutu has been apprehended by police in the US. The fashionable spider monkey was staying at a home in Jefferson County, Missouri when it "managed to open a door and get outside", police said.
An appeal to the Sheriff Appeal Court by a supermarket after one of its customers at a West Dunbartonshire store was awarded £9,500 after tripping on a mat at the exit of the store has been refused after the court found that the sheriff had correctly applied the maxim of res ipsa loquitur. Pur
A sheriff has awarded a Glasgow motorist who was struck from behind at a junction the sum of £3,144 in damages after finding that she had suffered neck pain for four months following the accident. Farheen Ackrim sought damages from UK Insurance Ltd after she sustained a soft tissue injury from
On 27 November the Sheriff Appeal Court held that it is a necessary condition for there to be an obligation that two persons are party to it, and so where there is no debtor, there is no debt. In Wright v Wright EDI-A337-23, the pursuer sought to call up a standard security granted by the defender f
A Paisley sheriff has appointed the Chief Social Work Officer of East Renfrewshire Council as the welfare guardian of an elderly woman diagnosed with dementia after finding none of her three children who sought the role would be suitable for it, but appointed one of her sons as her financial guardia
A sheriff has made no recommendations in the fatal accident inquiry into the death of a prisoner. Gordon Fraser, 79, died within his cell at HMP Addiewell, West Lothian, on 5 June 2022 following a period of deteriorating health.
A personal injury sheriff has ruled that no duty of care was owed by an employer to an employee who claimed he had received psychiatric injuries from a failure in grievance procedures arising from a dispute between one of his colleagues and his line manager that created a tense and stressful work at
