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A former Navy officer who was jailed after being convicted of brandishing a knife and punching a 17-year-old boy which resulted in his victim having to undergo extensive dental treatment has successfully appealed against his sentence. The Criminal Appeal Court quashed the custodial sentence imposed

A 55 year old man has been jailed after being found guilty of sexually abusing three young girls. At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, Duncan Mulholland was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for abusing the girls who were aged between 7 and 15 .The of

Four legal claims worth tens of thousands of pounds each arising out health care products for the treatment of urinary incontinence have been remitted to the Court of Session. A judge allowed the actions to be remitted from the sheriff court after ruling that “cause had been shown” as there was

A man accused of drugs-related offences who challenged the admissibility of “expert” evidence of a police officer whose report included content copied from the “Ask Frank” government-funded website has failed in an appeal. The Criminal Appeal Court upheld the sheriff’s decision to repel th

Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre (GLC) has successfully defended an ordinary cause action at Glasgow Sheriff Court for an alleged consumer credit debt of £7,500.

A father who claimed that his daughter was “coached” to make false accusations that he sexually abused her has failed in his appeal against a sheriff’s decision to refuse his application for contact with his child. The sheriff had ruled that it was in the child’s “best interests” to refu

The number of people appearing in Tayside and Fife courts on charges of stalking has soared to more than twice the level of just two years ago. The numbers were revealed under a freedom of information request by The Courier. Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court has seen the biggest surge in cases, with three tim

A woman who claimed she was on her way to a wool shop when she tailed and attacked a fellow driver has been told by a sheriff she must prove her knitting prowess by producing a “not meagre amount” of “multiple knitted items” to be sold to a charity shop when she re-appears in court. Dundee S

An Edinburgh computer hacker and dark web drug dealer has been sentenced to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £17,000 compensation at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. The court heard that 26 year old David Trail set up and administered the Topix2 website, an online black market site, which was use

A retired solicitor has been fined more than £4,000 for taking wild birds eggs from a nest on the Orkney Islands. At Kirkwall Sheriff Court 73 year old William Beaton, from Devon, pled guilty to wildlife crimes carried out in late May and early June this year on Orkney.

A man has been handed to a community payback order atEdinburgh Sheriff Court for using cruel animal snares as well as stealing the GPS fitted cameras that led to his arrest. Craig Aitken, 43, pled guilty to wildlife crimes carried out in January of last year at a farm in East Lothian.

A man found guilty of charges of wilful fire-raising who claimed there was “insufficient evidence” of identification of him as the perpetrator of the offences has failed in an appeal against conviction and sentence. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal after upholding a sheriff’s decis

The legal community in Dundee and Tayside has been stunned by the sudden death of local solicitor Bob Bruce, a popular figure in Forfar Sheriff Court. Mr Bruce, 57, was taken ill at his home last weekend and died in hospital on Saturday. He was a partner in the Dundee firm of Bruce Short & Co in

Cameron Shaw A recent decision by Sheriff Peter Braid in Edinburgh, in the case of Summary Application under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 by J, Solicitor in respect of the Adult F, will give practitioners food for thought when applying to have themselves appointed as financial guar

A solicitor has pleaded guilty to stealing more than £21,000 from his law firm as a result of “financial difficulties”. At Edinburgh Sheriff court Paul O’Donnell, 34, from Glasgow, pleaded guilty to embezzling £21,485 from Thorley Stephenson between 2012 and September 2014.