Case Reports

The proprietors of a country house and estate near Stirling have lost an appeal against a decision to amend a core path through a Scottish national park to allow the public access through land surrounding their estate. The petitioners, a charity which owned Gartmore House and the surrounding Gartmor

A law student who alleged that her human rights had been breached as a result of her university’s handling of a complaint made against her has had her case dismissed by a sheriff in Dundee Sheriff Court. Lisa Keogh, who had a behavioural complaint made against her in March 2021 which was ultim

A petition by a British citizen who was raised in France challenging a decision to refuse a request that he be transferred from a Scottish prison to a French prison where he would serve a shorter custodial sentence has been refused by a Lord Ordinary. Thomas Wainwright had been sentenced to 12 years

The High Court of Justiciary has restored the conviction of a private hire taxi driver who was charged with making a sexual verbal communication at two passengers after an appeal by the Procurator Fiscal in Edinburgh. Respondent Faisal Aziz had previously had his conviction quashed after a successfu

An organisation that sought to challenge revised statutory guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers regarding what is meant by a “woman” for the purposes of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 has had its petition for judicial review refused by the Scottish Mi

A Crown Bill of Advocation in respect of a sheriff’s decision to adjourn and later desert a trial diet for a serving soldier accused of sexually and physically assaulting another soldier has been refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Respondent Ryan Cooper had been placed under special bail con

The Inner House of the Court of Session has made an order for two solicitors to deliver a file to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission that it had sought as part of a complaint investigation into them, under exception of any privileged material contained in it. It had previously been held by the

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal by a manufacturer of cigarette papers against a finding that the company that handled the maintenance of their printing machines was only liable for just over £3,000 of an approximately £29 million loss, and assoilzied the def

A challenge to the legislative competence of part of Scottish legislation aimed at reducing a perceived imbalance in the relationship between the landlords of “tied pubs” and their tenants has been refused by a Lord Ordinary in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Petitioners Greene

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Northern Ireland) Bill is intra vires after it was challenged for infringing the right to freedom of assembly under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court found that placing limitations on where abort

A Lord Ordinary has refused to grant an application made by the daughter of a deceased man for a decree ordaining her adopted sister to seek a full account of her intromissions as both attorney and executor-nominate of the deceased’s estate and to repay the estate for monies she had taken from

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by a firm that sought the dismissal of an action raised against it by their former commercial agent in Scotland after it ruled that a plea of res judicata should have been accepted by the sheriff. Pursuer and respondent Hugh Beattie originally raised th

A man who was convicted of assaulting his sister and attempting to murder another man at her Edinburgh flat along with a co-accused and was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment has lost an appeal against conviction in the High Court of Justiciary. It was argued by appellant Darren Hughes, who

The High Court of Justiciary has allowed appeals by two of four co-accused found guilty of murdering a man in a drive-by shooting against the imposition of serious crime prevention orders under the Serious Crime Act 2015 due to commence after their release from prison. Darren Eadie and John Kennedy

Two appeals by the Assessor for Lothian against decisions of the valuation committee in respect of damaged land on a Livingston industrial estate have been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. It was argued by the appellants that the committee was wrong to focus on whether a potential