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NICOLA STEVEN WATT AND OTHERS AGAINST LEND LEASE CONSTRUCTION (EUROPE) LIMITED [2022] ScotCS CSOH_23 (03 March 2022)
The Court of Session held that low-level asbestos exposure in 1963 was not reasonably foreseeable as injurious, and assoilzied the defenders.
CASSELLS, DOUGLAS CASSELLS AND ANOTHER AGAINST DAVID W ALLAN, TRADING AS ALLAN'S GROUP, AND ANOTHER [2019] ScotCS CSOH_14 (12 February 2019)
Fatal injury claim after a bus struck an employee in a car park. The court found both the driver and employer negligent, with 30% contributory negligence.
Knight & Ors v Sedgwick Noble Lowndes Ltd & Ors [2017] ScotCS CSOH_21 (10 February 2017)
The court held that, in four pension scheme actions, the necessary steps to equalise retirement ages were taken timeously, so the pursuers proved no loss.
DETERMINATION UNDER THE FATAL ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS INQUIRY (SCOTLAND) ACT 1976 INTO THE DEATH OF STEVEN ALLEN [2012] ScotSC 118 (20 December 2012)
Fatal Accident Inquiry into Steven Allen’s death found no accident, no workplace defect, and no reasonable precautions that would likely have avoided death.
INQUIRY UNDER THEFATAL ACCIDENTS AND INQUIRIES (SCOTLAND) ACT 1976 INTO THE SUDDEN DEATH OF ROBERT CRAIG MACDONALD [2012] ScotSC 16 (07 February 2012)
Fatal Accident Inquiry concerning Robert Craig MacDonald’s death on the Forth Rail Bridge, finding he died after using an unauthorised route and falling from height.
INQUIRY UNDER THE FATAL ACCIDENTS AND INQUIRIES (SCOTLAND) ACT 1976 INTO THE SUDDEN DEATH OF ANNE MARIE MERRIGAN OR COPELAND, NIAMH COPELAND, JENNY CO [2012] ScotSC 9 (25 January 2012)
Fatal Accident Inquiry finding that hydraulic oil from a mobile crane likely caused a skid on the A92, leading to a collision that killed Anne Marie Copeland and her two daughters.
Grimshaw v Bruce [2011] ScotCS CSOH_212 (09 December 2011)
The Court of Session held that discharge from sequestration under section 55 of the 1985 Act extinguished a pre-sequestration personal injury reparation claim.
INQUIRY UNDER THE FATAL ACCIDENTS AND INQUIRIES SCOTLAND ACT 1976 INTO THE SUDDEN DEATH OF KENNETH MCLEAN [2011] ScotSC 104 (27 May 2011)
Fatal Accident Inquiry into Kenneth McLean’s death found he fell from unsafe fifth-level scaffold access at a Glasgow site, exposing failures in scaffold safety and site management.
Toner v George Morrison Builders [2010] ScotCS CSOH_125 (16 September 2010)
The Court of Session held that a builder was liable under work-equipment safety regulations after leaving an unsafe makeshift ladder available, but found the pursuer 50% contributorily negligent.
INQUIRY UNDER THE FATAL ACCIDENTS AND INQUIRIES (SCOTLAND) ACT 1976 INTO THE SUDDEN DEATH OF QIQIN LIN [2010] ScotSC 39 (15 January 2010)
Fatal Accident Inquiry into Qiqin Lin’s death found the crash was caused by mobile phone distraction, vehicle overloading, unsecured load, and vehicle defects.
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