A Scottish court has dismissed an eviction notice issued to a tenant farmer after the landlord delayed court action for nearly two decades. Stewart Miller of Flenders Farm in Clarkston was handed the reprieve by the Scottish Land Court following the “inordinate and inexcusable delay”. An eviction application was first submitted by Major John Carmichael Kirkpatrick Young in 2006 to terminate the tenancy of Matthew Miller, who passed away the following year. Lord Duthie and John Smith found that the delay satisfied the three-part test required for dismissal. In the ruling, they described the delay as “inordinate, inexcusable and has resulted in a substantial risk that a fair trial is no longer possible”.