Landmark or leading Scottish legal cases include:

Constitutional and Public Law

  • 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

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 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 [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

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)

Trusts

  • McCaig v University of Glasgow 1907 SC 231