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Sheriff Court Judgments

Not all cases which come before the Sheriff Courts will be reported on this site. Only where there is a significant point of law or particular public interest will the details be published. The earliest such case is dated September 1998.

Details of Fatal Accident Inquiries are published.

These pages will be updated at approximately 2.00 pm on any day on which new judgments are to be published.

If you have any comments or suggestions on the way the court judgments have been presented on these pages or on the method of searching the judgments, please send an email message to opinions@scotcourts.gov.uk.

There are three ways in which you can search the on-line documents.

• Keyword Search

  The keyword search will search the full text of all the opinions that have been published on the Internet for the keywords that you enter. Please Note* the Keyword Search will search ALL cases on the Website including those from the Sheriff Courts as well as those for the Court of Session and the High Court.

• Structured Search

  For the structured search we have categorised the judgments by type, date, name of judge or judges, pursuer/appellant, defender/respondent and type of action, and you can search for opinions within these categories. You can view a list of the types of action that are available.

• 50 Most Recent cases

  The final search lists the 50 most recent opinions posted to the web site. Note that the 'most recent' selection is based on the Date Uploaded as opposed to the Date of Opinion.

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