legal battle against prison bosses who stopped him visiting his ill grandmother. Scott Snowden, 44, was blocked on two different occasions in 2019 from visiting his granny who suffers from dementia and is too unwell to go to see him in jail.
He took the Scottish Government to court to seek permission to bring a judicial review to the court because he believed the decisions breached his human rights.
A judge at the Court of the Session refused to grant him permission to proceed believing that Snowden had little chance of success.This prompted the prisoner’s legal team to go to the Inner House of the Court of Session.In a written judgement published on Friday, appeal judges Lord Malcolm, Lord Woolman, and Lord Doherty concluded that their.
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