Mitchell Skilling

A Jedburgh sheriff has ruled that a homemade will by a woman that was signed only at the front of the document could not be cured by the court of defects that removed its testamentary effect. Pursuers Christopher Knapman and Patrick Wadeson sought to cure defects of execution in the purported will o

A sheriff has ruled that a shop worker who attempted to sue his employer for right ear deafness he claimed was sustained when a ball was thrown at him by a colleague had not acted unreasonably in bringing a personal injury action and thus was not liable for expenses under the Qualified One-Way Cost

A sheriff of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has found that a dispute between an Edinburgh woman and a company that let out her flat during the Edinburgh Festival should be remitted to the First-tier Tribunal to allow for evidence to be heard on the nature of the let. The appellant, Factotum (Scotla

An appeal by a party minuter against a sheriff’s decision to refuse a motion for a further diet of debate and proceed to proof in an action of multiplepoinding to determine possession of a fund derived from sale of a fraudster’s property has been allowed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. In a

A Lanarkshire woman who was imprisoned for 12 months for injuring a mother and her children by driving through a red light at a pedestrian crossing has lost an appeal against sentence before the High Court of Justiciary. Counsel for appellant Melanie Grierson argued that a non-custodial sentence wou

A lord ordinary has dismissed a personal injury action by an Aberdeen man who fell off the roof of a portacabin and suffered injuries resulting in tetraplegia after finding that his case under occupiers’ liability law was not made out. Pursuer John Davie suffered the injuries after he had gain

The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that the Scottish Information Commissioner was correct to determine that the Scottish ministers held information stored in a restricted system for an independent advisor concerning an investigation into whether former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon h

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by the purported owner of a disputed piece of scrubland on the Ardnamuchan peninsula against a sheriff’s determination that the owners of adjoining land had in fact acquired it in 1992 when they purchased a farm there.

A final appeal by an American man who had resisted his extradition to the USA on the basis that he was not the person named in two extradition requests has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Nicholas Rossi challenged the decision of the Scottish ministers to extradite him for trial in the

A man who was jailed for 12 years for repeatedly abducting another man when he was a teenager and subjecting him to sexual abuse has lost an appeal against conviction and sentence before the High Court of Justiciary. Scott Faulkner, who received a cumulo sentence of 12 years’ imprisonment in r

An Aberdeen man who tried to headbutt a police officer that attended at his home and arrested him has lost an appeal by stated case against his conviction before the Sheriff Appeal Court. It was argued by Paul Matthews that the Crown had failed to corroborate evidence that the police constable was a

A serving police officer who was investigated for failing to comply with an order requiring him to take a drugs test has lost a judicial review petition against the decision of Police Scotland to proceed with the investigation. The petitioner, D, had previously been investigated by Police Scotland o

A sheriff of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has reduced a decision of the First-tier Tribunal not to allow an appeal by a disabled man in Hamilton against his local authority’s refusal to reduce his council tax banding. Ian Bell had sought the reduction from South Lanarkshire Council in terms

A Lord Ordinary has ruled that the UK government acted lawfully in vetoing the Scottish Parliament’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill from receiving lawful assent, after a legal challenge to the block was brought by the Scottish Ministers. It was argued for the petitioners that the preconditions

A lord ordinary has ruled that the assignee of a property development company had a sufficiently relevant case for a proof in an action in which he alleged a fellow director had dishonestly acquired a development site for his own company, resulting in the administration of the company they were both