Mitchell Skilling

A sheriff conducting the trial of a man arrested after police received information from a paedophile hunter group that he had sent explicit messages to one of their decoys has overruled a defence objection to the admissibility of screenshots from the decoy telephone displaying the messages he was sa

A woman co-accused of murder and given a life sentence with a 16-year punishment part on her conviction has lost her appeals against conviction and sentence after the High Court of Justiciary rejected an argument that an earlier jury verdict found to be incompetent ought to have resulted in her acqu

A lord ordinary hearing a “wrongful birth” case has found that the father of a child with Down’s syndrome who would not have been born but for the negligence of a medical board that failed to comply with the mother’s requests for abnormality screening tests was entitled to da

The High Court of Justiciary has more than doubled the custodial sentence of a man who along with another detained an individual in a property and repeatedly struck him with knives and improvised weapons after a Crown appeal against the sentence’s leniency, after finding that the trial judge&r

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal under section 239 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 against a decision of a reporter for the Scottish ministers to grant planning permission to extend quarrying operations in an area where one of its pipelines ran and r

The Inner House of the Court of Session has recalled a lord ordinary’s declaration that the lord advocate’s immunity from liability in summary proceedings was incompatible with Article 6 ECHR in a malicious prosecution case arising from a journalist’s video commentary on the Alex S

The Outer House of the Court of Session has declared that Scottish Prison Service guidance permitting trans women to be accommodated in the female prison estate is unlawful following a petition for judicial review, after concluding that the guidance conflicted with a statutory requirement to provide

A social housing tenant in Dumfries who tripped has lost a case against her landlord under the Occupiers’ Liability (Scotland) Act 1960 and the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 after a personal injury sheriff ruled that the design of her back door was not in breach of the landlord’s statutory

A sheriff has dismissed an action against a car garage raised by a Perth pensioner after her car’s timing belt snapped during an MOT causing thousands of pounds in engine damage, after finding that liability could not attach to the garage from the failure of an unassessable internal engine com

A commercial judge has allowed a proof in an action by three former company shareholders who alleged that the purchaser of their shares failed to comply with their obligations in respect of potential further consideration they could have obtained under the contract, but refused their motion for decr