Scottish Human Rights Law Group

The Sheriff upheld an appeal against a decision of the Children’s Hearing to exclude the unmarried father of a child who was made subject by the Hearing to a supervision order which provided for no contact between the father and the child.  

The Lord Ordinary held that the right to sue for damages in respect of the death of a child should be extended to include step-parents, on the basis that toe exclude a step-parent in the position of the pursuer would be discriminatory and incompatible with Article 14 when taken together with Article 8 of the European Convention. 

The sheriff granted an application for parental rights and responsibilities to a  homosexual man in respect of his son who had been born as a result of artificial insemination.    The father had agreed to be a donor for the mother and her lesbian partner in the belief that he would be allowed frequent access to the child.   The sheriff refused …

An individual who had been placed as a child in foster care by order of the local authority raised an action of damages against them on reaching majority claiming after the Council removed her from the care of her mother and stepfather in 1997, they failed to facilitate her continuing to follow her religious persuasion of Catholicism by placing her …

Two children of a divorcing couple, aged 14 and 12 and C, had been interviewed in the course of preparation of the report to the court prepared to assist the court in determining issues related to the residence of the children and the contact with their parents.    Both interviewed children requested that their views which related to disclosures about certain …