Mitchell Skilling

A journalist who was prosecuted and subsequently acquitted of a statutory offence of threatening and abusive behaviour after making a YouTube video about the outcome of the Alex Salmond trial has lost an action for damages for malicious prosecution before the Court of Session due to the application

A sheriff has ordered that a company director who gave an undertaking not to act in that capacity in 2017 after failing to account for VAT and subsequently breached it by assuming de facto directorship of an Aberdeen logistics company said to have been run by his wife has been disqualified from acti

An Aberdeen sheriff has refused an appeal by a property owner against a decision not to award him a short-term let licence after it concluded following a single objection to the application from a neighbour that there was the potential for public nuisance if the licence was granted. Kirk Harrison ch

A man sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid work for assaulting his wife in front of her child has lost an appeal by stated case against his conviction after the High Court of Justiciary found that evidence from a friend of a de recenti statement could be used as a primary source of evidence in the absen

A sheriff conducting an inquiry into the death of a self-employed gardener who died after being struck by falling timber has concluded that his death could have been avoided if the drop zone into which timber was expected to fall had been more clearly identified and there was a clear means of commun

A man who claimed that he had been groomed by employees of a charity for LGBTQ+ young people when he was 15 and sexually abused by older men as a result of that grooming has been allowed a proof before answer on all of his averments after the defender unsuccessfully argued for the deletion of some o

An appeal by the defender in a Court of Session personal injury action arising from an asbestos-related death challenging the lord ordinary’s decision to allow the matter to be tried with a civil jury has been refused by the Inner House after it ruled that the provision relied on by the defend

An appeal by a man refused compensation following the lifting of an account freezing order over two of his bank accounts under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session after it confirmed that no exceptional circumstances applied that were sufficient

A Crown appeal against the length of a sentence imposed on a man who assaulted his partner by repeatedly dropping her, causing her to require two operations on her skull and severely reducing her quality of life, has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary after it found that the sentence impos

A sheriff has dismissed a claim by a partnership seeking damages from their insurance broker on the basis that their provision of false information had led to an insurance claim for fire damage being refused after finding that the specification of causation of loss was insufficient to meet the test

A sheriff has found that a servitude of fuel storage established by the placement of a coal bunker in the courtyard of one property to service another had not been unduly extended by the addition of gas canisters following a change to the property’s heating system, after a dispute arose betwee

An appeal by an Iranian asylum seeker against a council’s decision that he was over the age of 18 has been allowed by the Inner House of the Court of Session to the extent of determining that the petition had not been academic, however the petition was nonetheless refused on the basis that ade

The High Court of Justiciary has refused a Crown appeal against a nine-year prison sentence imposed on a man who deceived elderly victims into letting him into their homes and then stole from them after determining that the sole charge of assault of which he was found guilty did not merit an order f

A sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of a climbing instructor and two climbers in Glencoe has made no recommendations in terms of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016 after he found that they died after a slip or fall and there was no precaution tha

A waste management company has lost a Court of Session action in which it sought over £50 million following the postponement of the deposit return scheme for single-use drink containers in Scotland after it was ruled that a letter of assurance requested by the intended scheme administrator cou