Constitutional Law

• Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate
  Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate
  Burmah Oil Company Ltd. v Lord Advocate, [1965] AC 75, was a court case, raised in Scotland, and decided ultimately in the House of Lords. The case is an important decision in UK constitutional law and had unusual legal repercussions at the time....
  
   [1965] AC 75
• MacCormick v. Lord Advocate
  MacCormick v. Lord Advocate
  MacCormick v Lord Advocate was a Scottish legal action in which John MacCormick and Ian Hamilton contested the right of Queen Elizabeth II to style herself ‘Elizabeth II’ within Scotland...
  
  
• Free Church case
• West v Secretary of State for Scotland
  West v Secretary of State for Scotland
  West v Secretary of State for Scotland 1992 SC 385 ,1992 SLT 636, is the leading case on judicial review in Scotland and sets out in detail the present law...
  
   1992 SC 385

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
  Morrisson v Robertson
  Morrison v Robertson is a case establishing the common law principles that govern unilateral error in Scots law.-Facts:A man claiming to be the son of Wilson of Bonnyrigg approached Morrisson and offered to buy two cows from him. Although Morrison did not know the man, he knew of Wilson, who was a...
  
   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
  Wolf and Wolf v Forfar Potato Co
  Wolf and Wolf v Forfar Potato Co is a leading case in Scots contract law. It deals with offer and acceptance, more specifically with the effects a counter offer has on the existence of a contract....
  
   1984 SLT 100

Criminal

• Brennan v HM Advocate
  Brennan v HM Advocate
  Brennan v HM Advocate 1977 JC 38 was a Scots criminal appeal case decided in the High Court of Justiciary in its capacity as the Court of Criminal Appeal. The case set the precedent that voluntary intoxication, whether by drink or drugs, cannot be used to establish defences of automatism or...
  
   1977 JC 38
• Cadder v HM Advocate
  Cadder v HM Advocate
  Cadder v HM Advocate [2010] UKSC 43 was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom which held that the way in which police in Scotland detained suspects was not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and was therefore unlawful in terms of the Scotland Act...
  
   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 1991 JC 210
• Jamieson v HM Advocate 1994 SLT 537
• Khaliq v HM Advocate
  Khaliq v HM Advocate
  Khaliq and Anor v HMA was a Scottish criminal case decided by the High Court of Justiciary on appeal, in which it was decided that it was an offence at common law to supply materials that were otherwise legal in the knowledge that they would be used for self-harm.Two shopkeepers in Glasgow were...
  
   1984 JC 23
• McKearney v HM Advocate 2004
• Smart v HM Advocate 1975 JC 30
• Smith v Donnelly 2001 SLT 1007
• Sutherland v HM Advocate 1994 SLT 634

Property

• MacLeod v Kerr 1965 SC 253
• Sharp v Thomson
  Sharp v Thomson
  Sharp v Thomson 1997 SC 66 is a United Kingdom House of Lords decision regarding the status of an unrecorded disposition in Scots Property Law. The case was brought by Sharp as receivers for Albyn Construction Ltd, a building company who had sold a house in Aberdeen to the Thomsons, a brother and...
  
   1997 SC(HL) 66
• The Douglas Case ca 1745 (see Lord Monboddo)