Landmark A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances. In modern-day use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures ...

or leading

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

legal cases Precedent is a judicial decision that serves as an authority for courts when deciding subsequent identical or similar cases. Fundamental to common law legal systems, precedent operates under the principle of ''stare decisis'' ("to stand by thin ...

include:

Constitutional and Public Law

* Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate

965 Year 965 ( CMLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Nikephoros II conquers the fortress cities of Tarsus and Mopsuestia. The Muslim resid ...

AC 75 *

MacCormick v Lord Advocate ''MacCormick v Lord Advocate'' 1953 SC 396 was a Scottish constitutional law case and Scottish legal action on whether Queen Elizabeth II was entitled to use the numeral "II" as her regnal number in Scotland, as there had never been an earlier ...

1953 SC 396 *

Bannatyne v Overtoun ''Bannatyne v Overtoun'' 904AC 515 (also called ''General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland v Lord Overtoun: Macalister v Young'' 1904 7 F (HL) 1 and known as the ''Free Church case''), was a protracted legal dispute between the United Free ...

904 __NOTOC__ Year 904 ( CMIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * July 29 – Sack of Thessalonica: A Muslim fleet, led by the Greek renegade Leo of Tripoli, appears outside ...

AC 515 * West v Secretary of State for Scotland 1992 SC 385 *Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland 019 CSIH 49, then 019UKSC 41

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 * Morrisson 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 and Wolf v Forfar Potato Co 1984 SLT 100 *Smith v Bank of Scotland 1997 SC(HL) 111

Criminal

* Brennan v HM Advocate 1977 JC 38 *

Cadder v HM Advocate ''Cadder v HM Advocate'' 010UKSC 43 (26 October 2010) is a decision in which the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the way in which police in Scotland detained suspects was not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights a ...

2010 UKSC 43 * Cawthorne v HM Advocate 1968 JC 32 * Cinci v HM Advocate 2004 * Crawford v HM Advocate 1950 JC 67 * Drury v HM Advocate 2001 SCCR 583 *

HM Advocate v Ross ''Ross v HM Advocate'is a leading Scots criminal case that concerns automatism as defence. The High Court of Justiciary clarified the rules for an accused to successfully argue automatism as a defence to a criminal charge. Background Ross ...

1991 JC 210 *

Jamieson v HM Advocate ''Jamieson v HM Advocate'' is a notable legal case which established a precedent in Scotland which held that a man does not commit rape where he honestly, albeit unreasonably, believes his victim is consenting. This was a criminal case decided ...

1994 SLT 537 *

Khaliq v HM Advocate ''Khaliq and Anor v HMA'' was a Scottish criminal case brought in 1983 and decided by the High Court of Justiciary sitting as the Court of Criminal Appeal, in which it was decided that it was an offence at common law to supply materials that w ...

1984 JC 23 *

McKearney v HM Advocate McKearney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Dave McKearney (born 1968), English footballer * Pádraig McKearney (1954–1987), Marxist-oriented Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer * Tommy McKearney (born 1952), Ir ...

2004 *

HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan ''Her Majesty's Advocate v Thomas Sheridan and Gail Sheridan'' was the 2010 criminal prosecution of Tommy Sheridan, a former Member of the Scottish Parliament and his wife Gail Sheridan for perjury in relation to an earlier civil case called '' S ...

2010 *

Smart v HM Advocate ''Smart v Her Majesty's Advocate'is a Scots criminal law case relating to consent as a defence to assault. The High Court of Justiciary held that if the assault was made with an evil intent, consent could not negate it. The case saw the accu ...

1975 JC 30 *

Smith v Donnelly Smith may refer to: People and fictional characters * Metalsmith, or simply smith, a craftsman fashioning tools or works of art out of various metals * Smith (given name) * Smith (surname), a family name originating in England ** List of people ...

2001 SLT 1007 *

Sutherland v HM Advocate Sutherland () is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. The name dates from the Viking era when the area was ruled by the Jarl of Orkney; although Sutherland includes some of the northernmos ...

1994 SLT 634

Delict

Bourhill v Young ''Bourhill v Young'' 943AC 92 (also titled ''Hay v Young'') is a Scottish delict case, on the subject of how extensive an individual's duty is to ensure others are not harmed by their activities. The case established important boundaries on th ...

943AC 92 *

Donoghue v Stevenson ''Donoghue v Stevenson''

932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome against his stepfather Hugh of Italy, Hu ...

AC 562 was a Lists of landmark court decisions, landmark court decision in Scots delict law and English tort law by the House of Lords. It laid the foundation of the modern law of negligence in common law jurisdic ...

1932 SC(HL) 31 * Hughes v Lord Advocate * Kay's Tutor v Ayrshire & Arran Health Board *

Titchener v British Railways Board ''Titchener v British Railway Board'' 9831 WLR 1427 is a Scottish delict case concerning occupiers' liability, decided by the House of Lords. Facts Miss Titchener, a 15-year-old girl, climbed through a gap in a fence onto a railway line owned b ...

Enrichment

* Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York v Lothian Regional Council 1995 SC 151 * Shilliday v Smith 1998 SC 725 * Dollar Land (Cumbernauld) Ltd v CIN Properties Ltd 1998 SC(HL) 90

Property

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

Lord Monboddo James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (baptised 25 October 1714 – 26 May 1799) was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. In 1767, h ...

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Trusts

* McCaig v University of Glasgow 1907 SC 231

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