Case Reports

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The owners and publishers of the now defunct News of the World, which was ordered to pay £200,000 in damages after the former MSP Tommy Sheridan won a defamation action against the Scottish edition of the newspaper, have had an application for a new trial refused. Judges in the Inner House of the C

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A man who claimed he didn’t receive a big enough discount on his sentence after being jailed for admitting an assault to severe injury charge has had an appeal dismissed. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal by Ernest Findlay, who was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment after being give

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A gamekeeper who was found guilty of killing a buzzard after a sheriff rejected his special defence of alibi has failed in an appeal against his conviction. By a majority of two-to-one, the Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal after ruling that the sheriff provided “adequate reasons” for acc

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A dental health nurse who was dismissed after being denied legal representation in disciplinary proceedings against her NHS employer cannot challenge the decisions by way of judicial review, a Court of Session judge has ruled. Lord Burns refused a petition by Susan Dryburgh, who was dismissed by NHS

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A woman who raised a damages action against a health board following the death of her care home resident husband will be allowed to pursue her claim, after a judge in the Court of Session ruled that she had averred “more than the bare bones of a case”. The judge rejected the health board’s arg

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A road traffic accident victim who sought to challenge a judge’s charge to a jury after the jurors had retired to consider their verdict in her damages claim against the driver who knocked her down has had her note of exception dismissed because it came “too late”. A judge in the Court of Sess

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