Mitchell Skilling

A business that claimed it was unlawfully refused a small business grant during the Covid-19 pandemic has lost an appeal against the dismissal of its case before the sheriff after it was ruled that he was correct to find no proper case had been made out against the local authority that considered th

An appeal by a party to a share purchase agreement who stopped making payments under the agreement after forming a view that he had been fraudulently induced into entering the SPA against a sheriff’s decision that he had pled no relevant defence to an action for payment has been refused by the

A sheriff has ordered the payment of just over £436,000 by the stepmother of a pursuer who was due to receive funds under two testamentary trusts set up by his paternal grandparents after finding that she had breached fiduciary duties on behalf of a company set up by his father by allowing fal

A commercial judge has extended the administration period of a fashion retailer into its fifth year after a note was lodged by its administrators seeking an additional 12 months to resolve the remaining outstanding tasks of the administration. The joint administrators of PSL2021 Realisations Ltd, fo

A tax advisory company has lost a claim raised against a fruit and vegetable wholesaler that engaged its services after a sheriff ruled that a purported £9,600 “cancellation fee” said to be part of the company’s standard terms had not been incorporated into the contract betwe

The UK Supreme Court has allowed an appeal by HM Revenue and Customs against a decision of the Court of Session to allow for the recovery of historic input VAT by the NHS Lothian Health Board for private work undertaken between 1974 and 1997. NHS Lothian claimed unrecovered input tax in respect of p