List of Scottish legal cases

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