UK Covid-19 Inquiry and the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry (on-going)
Acting for COSLA, representing the interests of COSLA and 29 of the 32 local authorities in Scotland.
FAI: Lanarkshire baby deaths of Leo Lamont, Mirabelle Bosch and Ellie McCormick (on-going)
Fatal Accident Inquiry into the deaths of three babies in the Lanarkshire area taking place in January and February 2024 in Glasgow Sheriff Court (Sheriff Principal Anwar).
Wilson v Police Scotland 2022 UKTrib 5 (Investigatory Powers Tribunal)
Landmark judgement on Article 10 infringement of a journalist's rights in the protection of their sources. It establishes for the first time that simply an attempt to reveal a journalist's source can be an infringement, even though the journalist was not in fact asked to reveal the identity.
Sandra Cameron and Stuart Fyfe v Nwanko 2022 CSOH 7
Road Traffic pedestrian Proof conducted as Senior – successful on liability and limited the contributory negligence finding to one third for a pedestrian running out from behind traffic.
Simpson v Pret a Manger (Europe) Ltd [2021] SC EDIN 33
Personal Injury Proof (workplace accident) conducted via Webex
Rodas & Others v Edinburgh Trams Limited
Fatal case involving a pedestrian collision with a tram in Edinburgh.
Mary Morris v Stryker UK Ltd 2019 (unreported)
Product liability case involving a fractured hip.
Petition to the Nobile Officium by Worcester City Council 2021 (unreported)
Petition concerning a statutory lacuna in the arrangements for the cross-border placement of children in secure accommodation.
Hernandez v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] CSIH 21
Appeal to the Inner House. Unusual immigration matter concerning a US Citizen seeking leave to remain in the UK.
A v C [2019] GWD 5-60
Successful application to remit from Sheriff Court to Court of Session: acted for the defender and provided the opinion forming the basis of the argument to remit. Civil rape claim. Went on to argue a relevancy point about whether domestic abuse could form a course of conduct that could provide a link in time to the alleged rape.
MA Pakistan v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] CSOH 109
Leading decision on the correct interpretation of the test for fresh claims in immigration cases, having raised and sought to argue this point in other cases to get a decision.
Ashif v HMA [2015] J.C. 7
Acted for the Faculty of Advocates as Intervener in this 7 bench criminal appeal.
Fatal Accident Enquiry in to the death of Stuart Sandeman 2015 FAI 22
FAI into a death in police custody.
Z (China) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] CSOH 111
Rare second hearing under old judicial review procedure: novel damages claim for breach of the ECHR as result of visa refusal from Hong Kong, also involving complex historic website evidence.
Geraldine Allan v Amlin UK Ltd [2013] CSOH 156; 2013 G.W.D. 31-623
Leading Court of Session authority on the onus of proof in mitigation of loss in credit hire cases.
Ronald Hill v Norside Ltd [2013] CSIH 44
Appeal in a negligence case concerning apportionment of contributory negligence after a fall from a ladder.
Jeremy Milliken v AIB [2012] unreported
Commercial proof regarding the contractual entitlement of a banker to his bonus, commencing on the day RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester turned down his £1 million bonus and concluding on the day Sir Fred Goodwin (as was) was stripped of his knighthood.