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A 53-year-old Edinburgh site manager has been fined £3,600 after bulldozing a badger sett. Bryan Gilfillan from Restalrig was sentenced at Livingston Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to a breach of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 when he contracted workers to bulldoze earth over a badger

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged first notices with the Sheriff Court to begin the court process for conjoined fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of James Garscadden, Thomas Thompson and Marius Bauba. All three men died while in legal custody at HMP Shotts. Their

The High Court of Justiciary has ruled that the Crown unequivocally renounced its right to prosecute an individual for six alleged assaults after an appeal was brought against a sheriff’s decision to accept a plea in bar of trial based on an email sent by Crown Office staff to the would-be acc

The High Court of Justiciary has refused an appeal against a sheriff’s decision that a person accused of possessing indecent photographs of children did not require access to legal advice before responding to a police request to supply a password for an electronic device during a premises sear

The High Court of Justiciary has quashed a fine imposed on an Edinburgh sexual offender who breached the terms of a court order preventing him from accessing the internet anonymously and imposed a prison sentence in its place following a Crown appeal against the sheriff’s original sentence. Cr

An Arbroath man who fell down an unlit communal staircase in his building at night has lost an appeal against a sheriff’s decision that the local authority responsible for the maintenance of the stairwell was not liable for the accident. Craig Hill argued in his case before the Sheriff Appeal

RJ McLeod (Contractors) Limited has been fined £800,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a 10-year-old boy. The construction company pled guilty to a health and safety at work breach committed in July 2020.

A company director convicted of neglect resulting in the death of an employee who was hit by a bus following a fall from height has lost an appeal by stated case against his conviction in the Sheriff Appeal Court. Kevin Bowie was convicted after an eight-day trial of an offence under the Health and

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to commence the court process for a joint fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of Declan Gallacher and David Berry. The death of Mr Gallacher occurred while in legal custody within Clydebank Pol

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to commence the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of John White and Martyn Smith following attacks by Oskars Rancevs in Castle Road, Oban on 1 October 2018. A preliminary

A solicitor who was accused of embezzling over £7,000 from her Caithness firm has had the case against her thrown out by a sheriff because it has taken so long to come to court. But a trial has been fixed for Sylvia MacLennan's former business partner, Patrick Copinger, who allegedly embezzled

A woman who suffered hearing loss after working in a whisky bottling plant without adequate ear protection since 1990 has been awarded over £45,000 in damages from the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court. Margaret Denny, 63, had worked for the defender, Chivas Brothers Ltd, and its pred

Advocate John Halley, 59, has been arrested over alleged sexual offences. Mr Halley was arrested last month and is due to appear in Livingston Sheriff Court at a later date.

An appeal by an accused against a sheriff’s decision to extend the time limit for commencing his trial diet in Edinburgh has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary after it sought to clarify the modern law on the practice. Philip Barr was set to be tried under a charge of abusive conduct

Three new members have been appointed to the Scottish Civil Justice Council for a three-year term.