Case Reports

A woman who hired a construction company to build a luxury dog hotel in Aberdeenshire has lost an appeal seeking to reduce a decree ordering her to pay over £40,000 to the company. Laura Tierney originally raised an action seeking repayment of money she claimed had been paid to the defender, G

The High Court of Justiciary has refused an extradition appeal by three American citizens wanted in the state of Virginia for the attempted kidnapping of five children and the attempted killing of their parents. Warrants for the arrest of the appellants, Jennifer Amnott, Valerie Hayes, and Gary Rebu

A personal injury sheriff has awarded £119,250 in damages to a woman after finding that she was raped by a man she met on a night out in Dundee and that he could not have reasonably believed she had consented to sex. The pursuer, AB, averred that she had not consented to sexual intercourse wit

A Lord Ordinary has dismissed actions raised by two siblings who were former residents of a defunct care home run by the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth in the 1970s after finding that a fair hearing was not possible. It was submitted by the defender that the actions raised by pursuers B and

A petition to the nobile officium of the High Court of Justiciary by a self-titled journalist and blogger who was found in contempt of court after publishing material relating to the trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond has been ruled competent to proceed to a full hearing. Craig Mu

A Glasgow sheriff has granted the son of a deceased man who was adopted as a baby in 1933 access to his adoption process after ruling that the confidentiality of the application was governed by previous adoption legislation. The applicant, JH, made the application in a bid to learn his birth family

The husband of a deceased woman who had an accident in her workplace several months before her death has had an action in the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court dismissed on the ground that he had no title to sue. John Riddell, the executor dative of his late wife Valerie Riddell, argued tha

A reclaiming motion by HM Revenue and Customs against a Lord Ordinary’s decision to reduce an order refusing to grant backdated child tax credits to a refugee couple has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The petitioners, Ali and Saima Adnan, were granted refugee status i

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused a reclaiming motion by the manufacturers and parties involved in anti-competitive practices relating to the sale of trucks to Scottish local authorities and held that actions raised by the authorities were not barred by the passage of time. Glasgow

An advocate who was fined by the Scottish Legal Complaints Committee after it found he had failed to act in a client’s best interests by failing to disclose the terms of a feeing arrangement to senior counsel prior to settlement negotiations has lost an appeal against part of the decision. Jon

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ruled that the Chief Constable of Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate could not be held liable to pay millions in damages for malicious prosecution to a former consultant of Rangers Football Club involved in the takeover of the club by Craig W

A Lord Ordinary has awarded expenses against the Secretary of State for the Home Department after it was determined that the First-tier Tribunal was wrong to conclude that no appeal could be made against a decision not to allow his wife’s adopted son into the UK. The petitioner, OA, had brough

A Scottish employment tribunal has ordered Rape Crisis Scotland to pay a former employee over £50,000 in compensation after it found she had been unfairly dismissed from her role in the charity. It also expressed concern at the extensive role played by chief executive Sandy Brindley throughout

A Glasgow man who was convicted of sexually assaulting two women in a Glasgow nightclub on New Year’s Day 2020 and sentenced to a community payback order has lost an appeal against both convictions. Jack Ferguson was convicted by a jury of two charges under sections 2 and 3 of the Sexual

A former council electrician who was exposed to asbestos in the 1980s has been granted permission to proceed with an action for damages against the successor council to his previous employer. It was argued by John Kelman that he was not aware that his condition was sufficiently serious as to justify