List of Scottish legal cases

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Leading Scottish legal cases include:

• Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75
• MacCormick v Lord Advocate 1953 SC 396
• Bannatyne v Overtoun [1904] AC 515
• West v Secretary of State for Scotland 1992 SC 385
• Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland [2019] CSIH 49, then [2019] UKSC 41

• 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

• 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

• Bourhill v Young [1943] AC 92
• Donoghue v Stevenson 1932 SC(HL) 31
• Hughes v Lord Advocate
• Kay's Tutor v Ayrshire & Arran Health Board
• Titchener v British Railways Board

• 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

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

• McCaig v University of Glasgow 1907 SC 231

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