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The All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court has issued a judgment to give some guidance on motions for certification of skilled persons and sanction for the employment of counsel made under new court rules introduced in 2019. Sheriff Kenneth McGowan said the terms of motions should

A prosecutor who threatened to have a beautician deported because she intended to leave his husband's business has been fined £700. At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Sheriff Ian Duguid said it was likely David Wilkie-Thorburn, 52, would lose his job as an assistant procurator fiscal.

A new initiative gets underway today in three sheriff courts, Dundee, Hamilton and Paisley, piloting a new approach to summary criminal cases. The pilot will change the way in which the court manages those cases and, in doing so, test the benefits of stronger judicial case management and earlier eng

The sole director of a company has been sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment after his employee was crushed to death by an excavator bucket the director himself was operating. Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that on 7 May 2016 work was being carried out by Front Row Builders Ltd employees to build a wa

A man found guilty of behaving in a “threatening” manner towards two teenage girls has had an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to place him on the sex offenders register dismissed. The appellant claimed that he had not been given sufficient notice that there was a “signifi

A severely disabled man who was sentenced to one year and eight months’ imprisonment after being convicted of sexual offences against children has successfully appealed against a sheriff’s decision to impose a custodial sentence. The appellant “RC”, who was born with spina bi

A man accused of behaving in a “threatening and abusive manner” by shouting and swearing at his ex-wife has successfully challenged an attempt to prosecute him after a sheriff had previously deserted an identical complaint against the accused pro loco et tempore. The appellant appealed a

Asylum seekers facing eviction proceedings in Glasgow have been given temporary reprieve by a court. Around 130 court actions concerning proposed lock-changes by Serco have been put on hold or continued at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

Edinburgh solicitor Tara Davison writes on recent Sheriff Court proceedings exposing a lacuna in the law. At a recent case in Edinburgh Sheriff Court the pursuer's agent was called in to address the Sheriff at a pre-issue hearing regarding a motion for sanction of the employment of counsel made at t

Sean White of Allan McDougall Solicitors comments on the issue of sanction for counsel in an opposed motion hearing before Sheriff Liddle. Carlo Capuano -v- William Gannon (PN1959-18)9 th September 2019 Opposed Motion Hearing before Sheriff LiddleRobin Cleland, Adv on instruction by Allan McDougall

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is kicking off the new legal year with launch parties in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The association is hosting a drinks and networking event in association with Fraser Irvine Sheriff Officers on Friday 27 September at The Corinthian Club in Glasgow, fr

The first digital evidential hearing in a simple procedure case took place last month in Aberdeen Sheriff Court. This was a significant event as it introduced the first civil case in the UK to be processed from end to end by digital means.

A homeowner who was unable to maintain his monthly mortgage payments has successfully challenged his lender’s bid to repossess the property after appealing against a sheriff’s decision that the bank had validly served a calling-up notice. The Sheriff Appeal Court ruled that a &

A businessman has been fined £1,000 at Selkirk Sheriff Court for assaulting a Galashiels solicitor in his office. Malcolm Crawford, 53, was found guilty of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and seizing a solicitor by the body at the offices of Iain Smith and Partners on 11 February,

A recent success in the All Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court in a slip and trip case where the pursuer failed to prove how her accident happened has raised two issues of perhaps more general application given the looming introduction of qualified one way cost shifting (QOCS), writes Eoin Quinn