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On 8 April 2006 Barry John Tierney (45), a prisoner at H M Prison, Castle Huntly, died at 6 Dunvegan Court, Glenrothes, Fife whilst on weekend release, after snorting morphine. ......

In terms of section 6(1)(a) of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976, the sheriff found that Danielle Welsh died on 24th June 2008 at 10.25am at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In terms of section 6(1)(b), the cause of death was Liver failure due to paracetamol toxicit......

Adrian John Fleurs (40) was a prisoner being held in legal custody and serving a sentence of imprisonment at HM Prison Peterhead when he died in his cell at on 20th March 2006. The cause of his death was Coronary Artery Disease. ......

FAI in relation to the death of a 62 year old woman following her admission to Ward One of Monklands District General Hospital in January 2004. Mrs Pullar died following a "presumed insulin excess " which resulted from her receiving ten times the intended ......

Between 5 pm on Sunday 14th November 2004 and 8 am on Monday 15th November 2004 whilst alone within cell 5, segregation unit, HM Prison, Shotts the deceased hanged himself by a bed sheet suspended from a metal frame on the outside of the window there. This inquiry was held in terms of Section 1(i)(......

On 10 August 2005, Duncan Rowan MacLarty (71) in the course of his self employment as a farmer at Crasky Farm, Duncanston died when he fell through a perspex roof light in the roof of a barn and struck the concrete floor three meters below. The cause of death was a major head injury which he sustai......

On 10 August 2005, Duncan Rowan MacLarty (71) in the course of his self employment as a farmer at Crasky Farm, Duncanston died when he fell through a perspex roof light in the roof of a barn and struck the concrete floor three meters below. The cause of death was a major head injury which he sustai......

Mrs Janet Allen, aged 96 years, resided at 6 Westfield Drive, Greenock, died in the Larkfield Unit at Inverclyde Royal Hospit ......

In this action the pursuers, operators of livestock markets, sought damages for losses resulting from the selection and provision of an effluent treatment system for a livestock market at Ballymena, Northern Ireland. The pursuers sued the first defenders, who are consulting civil engineers, for b......

Reclaiming Motion:- The pursuer and reclaimer was resident in St. Margaret's Children's Home, Elie, Fife. The home was run by the statutory predecessors of the defenders and respondents. The pursuer sought damages for loss, injury and damage sustained as a result of sexual and non-sexual abuse in......

Procedure Roll:- In this action the pursuer sought damages in respect of loss, injury and damage which the pursuer claims to have suffered due to negligence in her ante-natal care in 1994. At debate counsel for the defender invited the court to sustain the defenders' first plea in law and dismiss......

In this action the pursuer, a porter at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, sought damages from the defenders, her employers, for an accident which occurred during the course of her employment when she slipped on loose stones on the stairs at the GRI and fell and injured her back. The basis of the pursuer's......

This relates to a hearing in terms of Rule of Court 42.4(4) in respect of a Note of Objection for the pursuer to a Report by the Auditor of Court in relation to an account of expenses lodged by the solicitors for the pursuer in the action and related to the Auditor's disallowance of certain charges......

The pursuer was employed by the defenders as a HGV driver until an accident occurred at work in August 2008. He was dismissed from his employment one month later following disciplinary procedure. At the time of the accident, he had been driving lorries for approximately 40 years. On the date of t......

Defender opposing motion for issues on the basis that certain parts of the pursuers pleadings were of doubtful relevancy and others were too complex for consideration by a jury. ......

The pursuer claimed that on 23 October 2001 he was working in the course of his employment for the defender as a window cleaner, cleaning the windows of a house at 11 East Hermitage Place, Edinburgh, when the unsecured ladder he was on slipped causing him to fall causing his injury. The pursuer ave......

The pursuer and appellant injured his leg, when he tripped over part of a metal barrier fence during the course of his duties as a security guard, at a school construction site in East Kilbride in July 2006. Quantum had been agreed between the parties at £4,000, however the Sheriff at first in......

The pursuer was suing the defenders in reparation for injuries which he sustained in the course of his employment as a swimming pool attendant. Whilst in the staff locker room, a glass bottle was accidentally knocked and exploded. The glass cut the pursuers leg. At common law, the pursuer alleged t......

In this action, the pursuer sought damages for injuries which he sustained in the course of his employment with the defenders while working aboard the Brent Bravo Oil Production Platform in the Scottish sector of the North Sea. At the time of the incident the pursuer (an experience deck crew rigger......

Reclaiming Motion:- On 5 May 2001 a car driven by Miss Rogerson, the first defender, with her boyfriend Mr Thomson as the front seat passenger, and a three year old girl, Sarah Clegg, in the back seat, attempted to cross a level crossing. The crossing was operated by Network Rail, the second defend......

Reparation - Debate:- The defenders enrolled the following motion:- "On behalf of the defenders, to grant decree of dismissal and award the expenses of the process in favour of the defenders on account of the pursuer's inordinate delay in pursuing the action". The motion was opposed, and a debate t......

The pursuer was a shipwright who was injured at work on 16th January 2007. He was working on a new naval destroyer at the Defender's Govan shipyard, when he slipped on an manhole cover on deck which had not been properly replaced and secured. The pursuer's case was that he suffered a fractured skul......

This was an action for damages for personal injuries sustained in the course of employment. The pursuer pleaded a case under Regulation 4 of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 as amended :- "Each employer shall - (a) so far as is reasonably practicable, avoid the need for his employees......

Proof:- The pursuer, an employee at Napier University, was invigilating at an exam at Merchiston Campus on 16 August 2006. At the end of the exam the pursuer collected the exam papers and left the room. As she did so, she tripped and fell against a wall injuring herself. Here the pursuer claimed ......

Hearing on liability in terms of Regulation 12 of the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. ......

Reparation:- In this action the pursuer sought damages of £200,000 following an accident on 12 August 2004 when the pursuer was working in the course of his employment as a baggage handler with the defenders at Aberdeen Airport. Here on behalf of the pursuer counsel sought summary decree and......

The defenders, a Roman Catholic order of religious women, sought an order for expenses from the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) for an abandoned action of reparation for historic abuse, raising the issue of the meaning of 'financial hardship' in s. 19(3)(b), Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (a......