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13 May, 2025
K v P [2025] SC HAM 26
Fiona Drysdale KC was successful in this civil rape case in which she acted for the pursuer. The case was before Sheriff Speir in the Sheriff Court at Hamilton. This was a single complainer rape case which had not been taken forward by the authorities so there had been no prior criminal case. This case post […]
7 May, 2025
Marlene Simpson & Faye Anne Campbell v Dumfries & Galloway Health Board
Ampersand’s Scott Clair acted as sole counsel for the defender and respondent health board in this appeal (having also appeared at first instance), in relation to whether a fatal claim for clinical negligence was time-barred due to the operation of the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973, and, in the event the claims were found […]
16 April, 2025
Supreme Court hands down judgment on definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010
The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers allowing For Women Scotland’s appeal. It held that statutory definition of “sex” (and of “man” and “woman”) under the Equality Act 2010 (EA) is biological such that the issue of a gender recognition certificate under the Gender Recognition […]
18 March, 2025
Determination into the deaths of Leo Lamont, Ellie McCormick and Mira-belle Bosch
Ampersand’s Vinit Khurana KC acted for the Scottish Ambulance Service and James McConnell KC and Scott Clair acted for Greater Glasgow Health Board in this Fatal Accident Inquiry. The Inquiry was into three neonatal deaths, and was presided over by Sheriff Principal Anwar. Her detailed determination, extending to over two hundred pages, can be accessed […]
6 March, 2025
David Downie v Fife Health Board
Ampersand’s Scott Clair acted as junior counsel to Craig Allardice for the pursuer, and James McConnell KC acted for the defenders, in this case which went to proof on allegations of negligence by a psychiatrist. The case has some procedural history, having been to the Sheriff Appeal Court on relevancy questions before finally coming to […]
12 February, 2025
Lynda O’Neill and others v Scottish Ambulance Service Board
Ampersand’s Lauren Sutherland KC acted for the pursuers with Hugh Masters as junior counsel, instructed by Drummond Miller LLP, in this sad case which arose out of the death in June 2020 of Brian O’Neill. At the time of his death Mr O’Neill was visiting an off-grid hutting community. One evening he fell and sustained […]