Case Reports

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In a claim to set aside a compromise on the basis of fraudulent misrepresentation, the defrauded representee need not prove it settled in the belief the misrepresentation were true in order to demonstrate influence by or reliance on that misrepresentation. The respondent, Mr Hayward, suffered an inj

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The Scottish Ministers have successfully challenged a judge’s decision to reduce a planning consent granted for the development of a new wind farm near Fort Augustus. Appeal judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session overturned a decision of the Lord Ordinary, who allowed a petition for jud

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The owners of a pub and proprietors of properties within a tenement which was destroyed by a fire are to be awarded more than £2 million in damages after a judge ruled that the building’s electricity suppliers were at fault for the blaze. The Court of Session held that the electricity company wer

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A bird conservation charity has successfully challenged plans to develop four offshore wind farms in the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the decisions by the Scottish Ministers to grant consent for the construction of the marine electricity generating proj

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ed by a flood in her engine room. Her main engine was damaged beyond repair. The flood was caused by (i) the crew’s negligence in failing to close the sea inlet valve in the emergency fire pumps, (ii) damage to the pumps, (iii) the negligence of previous contractors who had failed to seal bulkhead

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A man seeking damages from the estate of his late mother-in-law on the basis that she failed to honour an oral agreement that she would leave her house to him in her will has lost his legal bid after his brother-in-law won an appeal. Allowing the appeal by the woman’s son and executor, judges in t

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A man who retained money given to him under a contract for an illegal purpose has had his appeal – that illegality prevents the operation of the unjust enrichment rules – dismissed by judges in the Supreme Court. Mr Patel gave Mr Mirza £620,000 to place bets on a bank’s share prices with the

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