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Family law

Black against White

The sheriff granted divorce, continued a shared care arrangement for two daughters, and made a financial incidental order reflecting the defender’s mortgage payments.

  • Divorce
  • Shared residence order
  • Incidental order
  • Matrimonial property division
  • Child welfare
  • Expenses
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Civil procedure

Sir Iain Livingstone QPM, Chief Constable of Scotland v Kevin Booth

The Sheriff Appeal Court refused an appeal against a trafficking and exploitation risk order, including a five-year ban on foreign travel, and upheld the expenses award.

  • Trafficking and exploitation risk order
  • Foreign travel ban
  • Article 8 echr proportionality
  • Expenses
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Trafficking-and-exploitation-risk-order
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Contract law [2026] SACCIV 27

Santander Consumer (UK) Plc against Renata Dikmone (Sheriff Appeal Court Civil)

Santander Consumer (UK) Plc against Renata Dikmone (Sheriff Appeal Court Civil) [2026] SACCIV 27 (23 April 2026)

The Sheriff Appeal Court recalled the sheriff’s interlocutor, rejected the respondents’ cross-appeal, and held no further sums or interest were due after full recovery.

  • Consumer rights act 2015
  • Right to reject goods
  • Agency
  • Declarator
  • Expenses
  • Counterclaim
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Civil procedure [2026] SCDUM 41

Marion Hamilton against Dryfe Vets LTD (Sheriff Court Civil)

Marion Hamilton against Dryfe Vets LTD (Sheriff Court Civil) [2026] SCDUM 41 (26 March 2026)

The sheriff refused the defender’s motion for expenses, holding that the pursuer’s failure to prove she was driving did not itself establish fraud or manifest unreasonableness.

  • Expenses (costs)
  • Fraudulent misrepresentation
  • Manifestly unreasonable conduct
  • Qualified one-way costs shifting (qocs)
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Expenses
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Civil procedure [2026] SCDUN 35

Colin Gillan against Mark Sinclair (Sheriff Court Civil)

Colin Gillan against Mark Sinclair (Sheriff Court Civil) [2026] SCDUN 35 (10 February 2026)

The sheriff refused the defender’s motion to lodge a late account of expenses, but granted the pursuer expenses of the defender’s unsuccessful motion.

  • Expenses
  • Time limits for lodging accounts
  • Judicial discretion
  • Functus officio
  • Civil-procedure
  • Judicial-discretion
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Civil procedure [2026] SACCIV 7

Gary Bowers against Aviva Insurance LTD (Sheriff Appeal Court Civil)

Gary Bowers against Aviva Insurance LTD (Sheriff Appeal Court Civil) [2026] SACCIV 7 (27 January 2026)

Appeal refused against an award of summary cause expenses in a low-value personal injury action raised in ASPIC.

  • Expenses
  • Jurisdiction
  • Ordinary cause procedure
  • Summary cause procedure
  • Workplace accident
  • Sheriff appeal court
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Administrative law [2026] SACCIV 5

Yvonne Prentice against Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland (Sheriff Appeal Court Civil)

Yvonne Prentice against Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland (Sheriff Appeal Court Civil) [2026] SACCIV 5 (22 January 2026)

The Sheriff Appeal Court refused an appeal about expenses after the respondent conceded the firearms appeal, holding there was nothing left to litigate and no basis for an evidential hearing.

  • Expenses in litigation
  • Discretion of court on costs
  • Public authority immunity from costs
  • Firearms certificate revocation
  • Procedural fairness
  • Expenses
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Civil procedure [2026] SCEDIN 22

Gordon Dunn against Menzies Distribution LTD (Sheriff Court Civil)

Gordon Dunn against Menzies Distribution LTD (Sheriff Court Civil) [2026] SCEDIN 22 (27 November 2025)

The court granted the defender’s motion after the pursuer abandoned the action and was found to have made fraudulent representations, disapplying QOCS and recalling anonymity.

  • Qualified one-way cost shifting (qocs)
  • Fraudulent representation
  • Abuse of process
  • Anonymity orders
  • Expenses (costs)
  • Certification of skilled witness
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