Public rights of way and private servitude rights of way
Because the principles in relation to public rights of way overlap with private servitude rights of way, they have been placed together in one section
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Creation of public rights of way – need for public place end points
- Cuthbertson v Young
- Darrie v Drummond
- Duncan v Lees
- Jenkins v Murray
- Lauder v MacColl
- Leith-Buchanan v Hogg
- Magistrates of Dunblane v Arnold-McCulloch
- Marquis of Bute v McKirdy & McMillan
- Melfort Pier Holidays Ltd v The Melfort Club and Others
- Midlothian Council v Crolla
- Oswald v Lawrie
- Scott v Drummond
- Smith v Saxton
- Wood v North British Railway
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Creation of public rights of way – use as of right by the public for the prescriptive period
- Aberdeen City Council v Wanchoo and Neumann v Hutchison
- Ayr Burgh Council v British Transport Commission
- Burt v Barclay
- Cadell v Stevenson
- Cumbernauld & Kilsyth District Council v Dollar Land (Cumbernauld) Ltd
- Duffield Morgan v Lord Advocate
- Kinloch’s Trustees v Young
- Magistrates of Elgin v Robertson
- McGregor v Crieff Co-operative Society Ltd
- McInroy v Duke of Athole
- Norrie v Magistrates of Kirriemuir
- Rhins District Committee of the County Council of Wigtownshire v Cunninghame
- Richardson v Cromarty Petroleum Co Ltd
- Rome v Hope Johnstone
- Scottish Rights of Way & Recreation Society Ltd v Macpherson
- Strathclyde (Hyndland) Housing Society Ltd v Cowie
- Wills Trustees v Cairngorm Canoeing and Sailing School Ltd
- Wilson v Jamieson
- Creation of rights of way – interruption of the prescriptive period
- Different kinds of use of rights of way
- Need for a particular line for public rights of way
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Obstruction of rights of way
- Aitchison v India Tyre & Rubber Co.
- Anderson v Earl of Morton
- Drury v McGarvie
- Earl of Morton v Anderson
- Fife Council v Nisbet
- Geils v Thomson
- Glasgow and Carlisle Road Trustees v Tennant
- Glasgow and Carlisle Road Trustees v Whyte
- Graham v Sharpe
- Hay v Earl of Morton’s Trustees
- Kirkpatrick v Murray
- Lanarkshire Water Board v Gilchrist
- Lord Donington v Mair
- Macdonald v Watson
- Midlothian District Council v MacKenzie
- Rodgers v Harvie
- Soriani v Cluckie
- Stewart, Pott & Co. v Brown Brothers & Co
- Sutherland v Thomson
- Procedural issues
- Public and private rights of way – ancillary rights and burdens
- Relationship of public rights of way with private servitude rights of way and with ‘roads’ under the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984
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Rights of way – land owned by statutory undertakers or the Crown
- Ayr Harbour Trustees v Oswald
- British Transport v Westmoreland County Council
- Edinburgh Corporation v North British Railway Co.
- Ellice’s Trustees v Commissioners for the Caledonian Canal
- Kinross County Council v Archibald
- Lord Advocate v Strathclyde Regional Council and Lord Advocate v Dumbarton District Council
- Oban Town Council v Callander & Oban Railway
- The Ramblers Association v The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (and Others)