Leading Scottish legal cases include:

Constitutional and Public Law

965 Year 965 ( CMLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Nikephoros II conquers the fortress cities of Ta ...

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MacCormick v Lord Advocate ''MacCormick v Lord Advocate'' 1953 SC 396 was a Scottish constitutional law case and Scottish legal action on whether Queen Elizabeth II was entitled to use the numeral "II" as her regnal number in Scotland, as there had never been an earlier ...

1953 SC 396 *

Bannatyne v Overtoun ''Bannatyne v Overtoun'' 904AC 515 (also called ''General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland v Lord Overtoun: Macalister v Young'' 1904 7 F (HL) 1 and known as the ''Free Church case''), was a protracted legal dispute between the United Free ...

904AC 515 * West v Secretary of State for Scotland 1992 SC 385 *Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland 019CSIH 49, then 019UKSC 41

Contract

* Boyd & Forest v Glasgow & South-Western Railway Co. 1912 SC(HL) 93 * Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Ltd. v MacFarlane (1899) 1 F 993 * Hunter v General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corpn. 1909 SC(HL) 30 * Jacobsen, Sons & Co. v E Underwood & Son Ltd. (1894) 21 R 654 *

Morrisson v Robertson ''Morrisson v Robertson'' ( 1908 SC 332) is a case establishing the common law principles that govern unilateral error in Scots law.Morton's Trustees v Aged Christian Friend Society of Scotland (1899) 2 F 82 * Philip & Co. v Knoblauch 1907 SC 994 * Wolf and Wolf v Forfar Potato Co 1984 SLT 100 *Smith v Bank of Scotland 1997 SC(HL) 111

Criminal

* Brennan v HM Advocate 1977 JC 38 *

Cadder v HM Advocate ''Cadder v HM Advocate'' 010UKSC 43 (26 October 2010) is a decision in which the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the way in which police in Scotland detained suspects was not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights an ...

2010 UKSC 43 * Cawthorne v HM Advocate 1968 JC 32 *

Cinci v HM Advocate Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wi ...

2004 * Crawford v HM Advocate 1950 JC 67 *

Drury v HM Advocate ''Drury v. Her Majesty's Advocate'' is a Scottish criminal case heard before a full bench (five judges) of the High Court of Justiciary sitting as the Court of Criminal Appeal. Stuart Drury had been convicted of killing his former partner with ...

2001 SCCR 583 *

HM Advocate v Ross ''HM Advocate v Ross'' was a 1991 Scots criminal law case decided by the High Court of Justiciary. The defendant had been charged with violently attacking others in a public house, but was allowed to go free on the premise that he was in a stat ...

1991 JC 210 * Jamieson v HM Advocate 1994 SLT 537 * Khaliq v HM Advocate 1984 JC 23 * McKearney v HM Advocate 2004 * HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan 2010 * Smart v HM Advocate 1975 JC 30 * Smith v Donnelly 2001 SLT 1007 *

Sutherland v HM Advocate Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later co ...

1994 SLT 634

Delict

* Bourhill v Young 943AC 92 *

Donoghue v Stevenson was a landmark court decision in Scots delict law and English tort law by the House of Lords. It laid the foundation of the modern law of negligence in Common law jurisdictions worldwide, as well as in Scotland, establishing general principle ...

1932 SC(HL) 31 * Hughes v Lord Advocate * Kay's Tutor v Ayrshire & Arran Health Board * Titchener v British Railways Board

Enrichment

* Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York v Lothian Regional Council 1995 SC 151 * Shilliday v Smith 1998 SC 725 * Dollar Land (Cumbernauld) Ltd v CIN Properties Ltd 1998 SC(HL) 90

Property

* MacLeod v Kerr 1965 SC 253 *

Sharp v Thomson ''Sharp v Thomson'' 1997 SC(HL) 66 is a United Kingdom House of Lords decision regarding the status of an unrecorded disposition in Scots Property Law. The case was brought by Sharp as receivers for Albyn Construction Ltd, a building company who ...

1997 SC(HL) 66 * The Douglas Case ca 1745 (see Lord Monboddo)

Trusts

* McCaig v University of Glasgow 1907 SC 231 Scottish Scotland law-related lists College of Justice {{Scotland-law-stub