List of leading Scottish legal cases

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List of leading Scottish legal cases is a list of leading Scottish legal cases.

Contents 1 Constitutional Law 2 Contract 3 Criminal 4 Defamation 5 Delict (tort) 6 Property 7 Trusts

[edit] Constitutional Law

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• Smith v Donnely 2001 SLT 1007
• Sutherland v HMA 1994 SLT 634

[edit] Defamation

• Sheridan v News International 2006

[edit] Delict (tort)

• Donoghue v Stevenson 1932 SC (HL) 31

[edit] Property

• MacLeod v Kerr 1965 SC 253
• Sharp v Thomson 1997 SC(HL) 66
• The Douglas Case ca 1745 (see Lord Monboddo)

[edit] Trusts

• McCaig v University of Glasgow 1907 SC 231