List of leading Scottish legal cases is a list of leading Scottish legal cases. Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Case law (precedential law) is the body of judge-made law and legal decisions that interprets prior case law, statutes and other legal authority -- including doctrinal writings by legal scholars such as the Corpus Juris Secundum, Halsburys Laws of England or the doctrinal writings found in the Recueil Dalloz...

Constitutional Law

• Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75
• MacCormick v. Lord Advocate
• Free Church case

Burmah Oil Co. ... MacCormick v. ... Bannatyne v Overtoun, [1904] A.C. 515 (better known as the Free Church case), was a protracted legal dispute between the United Free Church of Scotland (which was a union in 1900 of the majority Free Church of Scotland with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland) and the minority of...

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
• Morrison v Robertson 1908 SC 332
• Morton's Trustees v Aged Christian Friend Society of Scotland (1899) 2 F 82
• Philip & Co. v Knoblauch 1907 SC 994
• Wolf & Wolf v Forfar Potato Co. Ltd. 1984 SLT 100

Criminal

• Brennan v HMA 1977 JC 38
• Cawthorne v HMA 1968 JC 32
• Crawford v HMA 1950 JC 67
• Drury v HMA 2001 SCCR 583
• HMA v Ross 1991 JC 210
• Jamieson v HMA 1994 SLT 537
• Khaliq v HMA 1984 JC 23
• Smart v HMA 1975 JC 30
• Sutherland v HMA 1994 SLT 634

This Scottish criminal case decided by the High Court of Justiciary on appeal held that a person does not commit rape where he honestly, albeit unreasonably, believes his victim is consenting. ... Smart v HMA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Delict

• Donoghue v Stevenson 1932 SC (HL) 31

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Employment

Family

NB - Scotland recognises that family law must be constantly evolving with the times, in order for the law to match modern society. Therefore, there is very little relevant case law for family law, and the vast majority is contained within Acts of the Scottish Parliament (ASPs). Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Family Law was a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as a divorced lawyer who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients. ... This is a list of Acts of the Scottish Parliament. ...

Property

• MacLeod v Kerr 1965 SC 253
• Sharp v Thomson 1997 SC(HL) 66