Case Reports

The Sheriff Appeal Court has quashed a Dundee motorist’s conviction for dangerous driving after finding that CCTV evidence that contradicted a police witness’ evidence that there would have been a head-on collision had he not turned his vehicle ought to have resulted in no finding that t

A sheriff has granted division and sale of a matrimonial home at the instance of a divorcing husband who left the property after his marriage broke down after finding that the needs of the couple’s 14-year-old child did not prevent the property from being sold. Pursuer F and defender T separat

An Airdrie sheriff has made a residence order in favour of the mother of three children who fled the family home as a result of abuse towards the children and herself, which resulted in two criminal convictions in 2025, but allowed the father to have indirect contact by email. Pursuer CT, who had an

A Livingston sheriff has ordered the removal of the occupant of a house formerly subject to a Scottish Secure Tenancy, whose mother had been the tenant until July 2023, after finding that he had not entered into a new oral tenancy with the landlord in his correspondence with them in the following mo

A sheriff has granted decree of absolvitor in a dispute between two sisters over whether a letter dated seven years after their mother’s will had altered it to remove one of them from the will after ruling that the letter was not an informal codicil. Pursuer Lois Boyd and defender Lora Boyd we

The Outer House of the Court of Session has dismissed an action for payment by a firm of solicitors against a Dubai-based law firm which required to instruct a Scottish firm for a debt recovery action on behalf of a client based in Hong Kong after finding that the references in the contract to &ldqu

A reclaiming motion by a mother challenging a lord ordinary’s decision to order her to return her son to Switzerland after he was removed to Scotland by his maternal grandfather has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session after the court ruled that sufficient safeguards were in

A sheriff has ordered a proof in an action for damages raised by a boat builder against a haulage company contracted to transport a boat mould he alleged he owned and repelled a plea of no title to sue advanced by the defenders, having ruled that the pursuer had a possessory interest in the mould an

The family of a Romanian national employed in England as an HGV driver who died in a road accident in Scotland caused by yellow warning high winds have failed to establish that Scots law applied to their case against his employer, after a lord ordinary ruled that the basis of the case was founded on

The Sheriff Appeal Court has quashed an absolute discharge given to a motorist found speeding at over 100mph outside of Kilmarnock with bald rear tyres and instead fined him £1,125 and disqualified him from driving for 22 months, following a Crown appeal against the sheriff’s decision. M

A man who took photographs of two witnesses in a case against him seeking his disqualification as a company director has lost his appeal against a finding that he was in contempt of court after the Sheriff Appeal Court found that his conduct objectively amounted to contempt regardless of his stated

A sheriff has allowed a claim by two landowners against their neighbour, whom they averred harmed the wedding business on their land by performing extensive excavation work next to it, to proceed on the basis of pure economic loss based on an intentional or reckless delict of nuisance, but excluded

The Supreme Court has dismissed a final appeal by Scottish Power against a decision that it was liable to pay damages to the family of an employee who died of mesothelioma following the settlement of his own claim against the company in 2014, after ruling that the deceased did not need to be sufferi

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by the purchaser of a second-hand vehicle on hire-purchase against a decision that he had not validly rejected the vehicle following a clutch failure nine months after delivery, after ruling that the deciding sheriff had not failed to take into account

A sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a care home resident with dementia who choked on her food after being left alone in her room with her breakfast has concluded that her death could have been avoided if she had been supervised while she was eating and more information ab