Ross McCormick

The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has rejected an appeal against conviction by a Dundee teenager convicted of rape and sexual assault, finding that a preliminary hearing judge’s refusal to admit evidence of social media exchanges between him and the complainers did not result in

The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed a reclaiming motion to proceed after finding that, on a “fair and pragmatic” interpretation of the statutory time bar, the petitioner had lodged her appeal within the prescribed period. The petitioner, who sought judicial review of vari

In a case raising “an important legal issue”, the Inner House of the Court of Session has dismissed a property developer’s appeal against a sheriff’s decision ordering him, on the basis of a prior oral agreement, to discharge a standard security granted in his favour by a bus

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by self-represented housing association tenants against the grant of an order for recovery of possession on the basis of anti-social behaviour, notwithstanding their complaints of an inequality of arms. The appellants, who were tenants of a property own

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed a London-based investment manager’s appeal against HMRC’s decision to treat the preponderance of its partners as employees for the purposes of tax and national insurance contributions pursuant to “salaried members” legislation. The appellant

A lord ordinary has rejected a commercial landlord’s application for leave to appeal against an arbitrator’s determination that a notice it purported to serve, ordering the tenant to remove works and make reinstatements, was invalid on account of various “obscurities and contradict