Cases

A bookkeeper has been jailed after stealing from her employers for a fifth time. Natalie Taylor, 42, was given a four and a half year sentence when she admitted embezzling £90,000 from a machinery supplies firm.

A Glasgow sheriff has awarded just over £17,500 to an electrician and approved rot contractor who carried out communal work to his second cousin’s property before it was sold for over £1.1 million after finding that he was not paid the majority of the sum due for the job and the c

The Inner House of the Court of Session has affirmed a decision of a commercial judge that the Scottish courts have jurisdiction to hear an action arising from an alleged breach of contract between a joint venture involved in a Scottish Water pipeline project to supply drinking water to Edinburgh a

An Aberdeen man who sought judicial review of his local authority’s plans to redevelop part of a recreational park near his home as part of a sustainable energy strategy has had a reclaiming motion against the refusal of the petition refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session.

A Dundee sheriff has refused an appeal by a trust against a decision of the Scottish ministers to allow a community body to exercise the right to purchase derelict land in St Andrews owned by the trust, in the first appeal of its kind in Scotland. Forthtay Ltd Employee Trust, which owned a plot of l

A commercial judge has dismissed parts of a claim brought by a contractor against the Port of Aberdeen in relation to a settlement dispute between them but appointed a proof in respect of the overall claim.

The owners of a Category A listed country house in Ayrshire have lost a judicial review challenge against a purported decision of a local authority that a 2004 grant of planning permission imposing conditions on the development of the estate remained extant after a lord ordinary ruled the letter al

A commercial judge has dismissed part of a man’s claim against two green energy companies for negligently installing wind turbines in the wrong locations after ruling that he could not claim for losses accrued by business vehicles he had formerly owned in part. Arthur Simmers raised an action

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 sheriff has ordered a materials processing company to pay just over £58,000 to a civil engineering contractor in respect of an overpayment made during a dispute about volumes of excavated rock at a landfill site after finding that the defender had been unjustly enriched at the pursuer’

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused a reclaiming motion by a community interest company against a decision to reject a challenge to the Scottish Ministers’ grant of planning permission for a wind farm near a known Scottish wildcat habitat.

The Highland Council's decision to redesign part of Inverness city centre has been overturned by a senior judge after the plans were challenged by the owners of the region's biggest shopping centre.

A decision by Glasgow City Council to grant planning permission for a boundary fence with lockable gate at a sports pitch leased by a charitable trust has been reduced by a lord ordinary on the ground that it failed to consider a statutory duty to maintain access to land.

The owners of a Glasgow building given category C listed status due to its architectural and historic qualities have successfully appealed to the Court of Session Inner House against a reporter’s decision to refuse an appeal against the decision to list it, and had the matter remitted to a new

An Aberdeen sheriff has ordered a property developer to discharge a £1.15 million standard security granted in his favour by another developer after ruling that all the conditions of discharge had been complied with.