Please contact the Clerks for any information regarding Chris Pirie

He also conducts Hearings before Employment Tribunals and advises on all aspects of employment litigation. He also sits as a Justice of the Peace.  

• Devil Masters: Rory Anderson KC; Gary Allen KC
• Qualifications: LL.B (Hons)(Glasgow)
• Member of Rules Rewrite Working Group established by the Scottish Civil Justice Council;
• Justice of the Peace (Sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway)
• Previously Tutor at Glasgow University (Diploma in Legal Practice, (Advanced Civil));
• Member of Scottish Immigration Law Practitioners Association;

Cases:

Tsiklauri v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2020) CSIH 31; certification of family life claim as clearly unfounded);

BH (policies/information: SoS’s duties Iraq  2020 UKUT 189 (importance of distinction between SoS policies and CPIN information)

AJR v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2019) CSIH 24; (2019) SLT 509 (Internal relocation in Kurdistan);

SA v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2018) CSIH 28 (whether conduct sufficient to justify deportation) 

PZ v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2018) CSOH 60 (genuineness of Christian conversion)

MS v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2013) CSIH 52 (Article 8 ECHR and the Immigration Rules);

Publications:

“An Independent and Impartial Tribunal” (CLT Human Rights and UK Practice April 2000);

 “Res Ipsa Loquitur at Parkhead” (Greens Reparation Bulletin September 2000);

“Due Diligence – Must Try Harder” (Scottish Licensing Law and Practice June 2001);

 “Stress at Work – The Next Generation of Claims” (paper to Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow on 3rd October 2002);