Ross McCormick
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 27
- Latest publication
- Sep 9, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Scottish Legal News
- Top 5M sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest articles
Inner House dismisses landlord’s appeal in Glasgow Grosvenor hotel repairs dispute (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused the reclaiming motion of the landlord in a sub-lease of the Glasgow Grosvenor hotel after finding its arguments on the relevant repairing standard to be contrary to the “clear and obvious purpose” of the terms of the parties’ agreement. After the 2021 expiry of a sub-lease of the Glasgow Grosvenor hotel, the reclaimer brought proceedings in the commercial court regarding the hotel’s condition. That action having been dismissed, it reclaimed to
Sheriff Appeal Court upholds acquittal of Glasgow students involved in university spray-paint protest (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Two students who sprayed paint against Glasgow’s James McCune Smith learning hub to protest the university’s association with Israeli-linked companies have had their acquittals upheld by a two-to-one majority of the Sheriff Appeal Court. Two students were acquitted at trial on charges of malicious mischief libelled in connection with a protest involving the spray-painting of a university building. The Crown’s appeal against those acquittals proceeded to be heard before the Sheriff Appeal Court.
Inner House allows high street firm’s appeal against ‘erroneous’ SLCC determination (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed an appeal by a Glasgow high street law firm concerning a determination made against it by the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, finding that the commission had erred in inferring that the firm lacked the competence to act in a family law matter. Four complaints against the appellant firm were upheld by the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission. The appellant challenged each of those determinations before the Inner House of the Court of Sessi
Sheriff Appeal Court refuses insolvent company director’s appeal against decree reversing illegitimate disbursements (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a former company director whose defences against the company’s liquidators’ claims of illegitimate payments were rejected by the sheriff as lacking in specification, concurring that his averments amounted mainly to “bold statements or bare denials”. A sheriff granted decree against the appellant after the joint liquidators of his former company alleged that he had received payments in breach of fiduciary duty. The appellant challenged that decisi
High Court increases ‘unduly lenient’ sentence of father who choked children (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has allowed a Crown appeal against the sentence imposed on a father who was convicted of assaulting his children, taking the opportunity in dicta to urge Scottish courts to recognise the gravity of the “prevalent, insidious” and “extremely dangerous” practice of choking. The respondent was convicted of various offences, including the assault of two of his children, in April 2026 and sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment. Challenging that sentence o
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 5M sites
For Scottish Legal News, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.