List of leading Scottish legal cases

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Leading Scottish legal cases include:

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Constitutional Law

Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75
MacCormick v. Lord Advocate
Free Church case
West v Secretary of State for Scotland 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 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

Criminal

Brennan v HM Advocate 1977 JC 38
Cadder v HM Advocate 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 1984 JC 23
McKearney v HM Advocate 2004
HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan 2010
Smart v HM Advocate 1975 JC 30
Smith v Donnelly 2001 SLT 1007
Sutherland v HM Advocate 1994 SLT 634

Delict

Bourhill v Young
Donoghue v Stevenson 1932 SC (HL) 31
Hughes v Lord Advocate
Kay's Tutor v Ayrshire & Arran Health Board
Titchener v British Railways Board

Property

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

Trusts

McCaig v University of Glasgow 1907 SC 231

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