Mitchell Skilling

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has quashed an employment tribunal’s order to reinstate an employee of the British Council whom it dismissed after it was alleged that he had sexually touched an employee of the British Embassy in Italy at a social event in his flat. Paul Sellers raised a claim o

A former landlord who alleged that his tenants had stolen a set of shutters and failed to pay for replacement carpets has been refused permission to appeal his two cases against them to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland after it upheld the First-tier Tribunal’s decision in both cases that no los

A judicial review challenge against a decision of Glasgow City Council to issue a certificate of lawful proposed use or development in relation to a fence intended to be erected around a football pitch in a park has been refused by the Court of Session. Petitioner Gregory Brown sought declarator tha

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by a woman who successfully defended her case against a private car park operator that sought £6,370 in unpaid parking charges from her in respect of the sheriff’s decision that she was liable for the pursuer’s expenses, but only to th

A commercial judge has disqualified a man from acting as a company director for seven years after finding he had used illegal migrant workers as the majority of the workforce of his takeaway business while he was director. Qiqing was made the subject of a petition for a disqualification order by the

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal against a lord ordinary’s decision to refuse to reduce a decision of Glasgow City Council not to conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment in respect of the demolition of four tower blocks in Maryhill. Petitioner and reclaimer Caz

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal against a lord ordinary’s decision to refuse to reduce a decision of Glasgow City Council not to conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment in respect of the demolition of four tower blocks in Maryhill.

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has determined that an Icelandic woman who was divorced from her husband by decree in absence in Dunfermline Sheriff Court in 2021 was entitled to have that decree reduced. Linda Hafthorsdotir sought to reduce her divorce from Bjarni Eyvindsson, aft

A 16-year-old who was convicted of culpable homicide after he headbutted and punched an Elgin bus driver who later died from his injuries has lost an appeal against his sentence. NRL was detained for four years and four months, reduced from a headline sentence of 6 years and 6 months, after pleading

The High Court of Justiciary has increased the length of an extended sentence imposed on a man who groomed a teenage girl into having sex with him and made indecent communications towards another person he believed to be a young girl, after the Crown appealed against the leniency of the original sen