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A Crown appeal against a sheriff’s decision to uphold a minute complaining of unreasonable delay per Article 6(1) ECHR in the trial of a solicitor accused of embezzling funds from her law firm has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Sylvia MacLennan and her partner were separately ch

The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld the conviction of a man who posted offensive messages to a Facebook page about the opening of a Christmas shop in the area but quashed a fine imposed by the sheriff in favour of an admonishment. Graham Kane, a mental health nurse with no previous convictions, pled

Inverness Sheriff Court has banned a local retailer from selling vapes for 15 months after he was found to be selling them to underage customers. Adnan Abbas owns two retail shops in Inverness city centre — Vapecing and Wow Mobile — which are registered to sell nicotine vapour products o

A police force has urged members of the public to stop calling in noise complaints about insects. Newberry County Sheriff's Office in the US state of South Carolina said it had received calls about "a noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar", which is in fact caused by cicad

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a man who was due payments from a bank for mis-sold payment protection insurance following a 2019 decision that it could not set-off the payments against a discharged protected trust deed debt, upholding a sheriff’s decision that his claim had

The installation of the following sheriff and summary sheriffs will take place tomorrow morning at Glasgow Sheriff Court, in courtroom 8 at 9.30am: All court staff and justice partners are invited to attend.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused the substantial part of an appeal against an interdict pronounced against an environmental campaigner and researcher who trespassed onto fish farming sites to take video footages of the fish, but allowed for amendments to tighten its scope. Pursuer and respondent

An Edinburgh sheriff has ruled that the former solicitor of a widow’s late husband who had been renting out a flat the couple owned without her knowledge was required to pay £14,4000 in rent payments from 2007 to 2009, plus over £17,000 in interest, after she raised an action for c

Former sheriff Kevin Drummond KC expands on his solution to the problem of dealing with the Horizon cases.  I am pleased that my letter in SLN has produced an informed response by Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, by Lord Uist and by Fergus Ewing MSP amongst others. Of necessity and for economy, m

A sheriff principal has ruled that it was not necessary for a sheriff to appoint a curator ad litem in a family law case where the defender had a mild learning disability but appeared to be fully capable of instructing a solicitor and understanding the case. It was argued by S, the appellant, that r

Former sheriff Douglas J Cusine is impressed by Gillian Mawdsley's new study of sudden deaths and FAIs in Scotland. For me, there are two very significant sentences in this impressive book: “The public should be able to understand the role of an FAI…” (para. 2.01) and “It is

A personal injury sheriff has refused a motion for expenses by a successful defender in a case covered by qualified one-way cost shifting after rejecting their argument that the pursuer’s conduct had been unreasonable. Defender Robert Mykytyn, who was granted decree of absolvitor in an action

A personal injury sheriff has found the expenses of a settled claim arising out of a road accident should be paid by the pursuer after he accepted a pre-litigation offer five days prior to a proof. Pursuer John Carty, who was involved in an accident in May 2021, had raised a claim against Churchill

A sheriff has determined that Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard, 54, who was arrested in Fife, can be extradited to France. The domestic warrant issued for Mr Reynouard's arrest revolves around alleged offences linked to online videos, some of which distinctly contain statements that deny the occur

A sheriff of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has refused an appeal by an evicted tenant under a short assured tenancy against a First-tier Tribunal decision that he had renounced his original assured tenancy of the property. Appellant Phillip McCallum sought to argue that a previous agreement to ter