Case Reports

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

A Romanian national who was convicted of tax offences in Romania has been refused leave to appeal against a sheriff’s grant of extradition after failing to persuade the High Court of Justiciary that his prosecution was politically motivated and extradition would be incompatible with his rights

An appeal against a decision not to delete a separate valuation of the site of an external ATM outside of a post office in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session after it determined that a 2020 Supreme Court decision offering guidance on the identificatio

A man who was mistakenly returned to custody for a week after a decision to grant him bail was wrongly minuted as having been refused has been awarded £3,325 in compensation after a sheriff ruled that the circumstances of the case did not merit the higher award sought by the pursuer. Duncan We

A sheriff sitting in the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has quashed a decision refusing to grant an eviction order on the ground of the landlords’ financial hardship and directed the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to find that tacit relocation had ceased to operate in respect of the parties&rsq

An appeal by a social work student against a decision of the Scottish Social Services Council to remove him from the relevant part of the social worker register after he was convicted of an abuse offence has been refused by a sheriff after he found that the panel that considered his case had not err

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