Senior Counsel
Year of call: 1981 | Year of silk: 1998
Areas of expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Land & Property and Commercial
John Campbell called to the Scottish Bar in 1981 and was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1990. His primary practice areas are in Town and Country Planning, Energy and Land and Rural Law.
Year of call: 1984 | Year of silk: 1998
Areas of expertise: Public Law
Mungo has litigated human rights cases at the highest level over a number of years, often in the House of Lords, Privy Council and the UK Supreme Court.
Year of call: 1986 | Year of silk: 1998
Areas of expertise: Employment
Brian Napier is recognised as the leading practitioner in employment law at the Scottish bar. He is regularly instructed in complex and high-value cases, both in Scotland and England.
Laura Dunlop KC
Year of call: 1989 | Year of silk: 1998
Laura is experienced in a wide range of Civil Litigation and has long standing experience of all kinds of Personal Injury work. She currently practises mainly in Administrative Law and Professional Negligence.
Leo has more than 30 years litigation experience, both as a solicitor and as an Advocate. He has gained considerable experience in all areas of Civil Litigation and has made regular appearances in Scotland’s courts.
Year of call: 1992 | Year of silk: 2018
Areas of expertise: Land & Property, Crime, Commercial, Employment, Negligence and Public Law
Andrew Webster is a redoubtable court practitioner. The UK Government’s “go to” counsel in Scotland, he offers experience in commercial, public and regulatory work, civil liberties and human rights challenges, property and planning law, and in the area of reparation.
Year of call: 1993 | Year of silk: 2008
Areas of expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Land & Property, Commercial and Negligence
Alan McLean has acquired a broad experience and practice in civil law in his almost thirty years at the Scottish bar, particularly in the fields of reparation and damages, professional negligence (with a focus on clinical negligence), construction law and property cases.
Andrew Brown has returned to full time practice after serving as an Advocate Depute for over five years. During his time in Crown Office Andrew prosecuted multiple trials in the High Court, including ten murders.
Year of call: 1999 | Year of silk: 2016
Areas of expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Commercial and Public Law
Steven Walker is a British Kings’s Counsel.
He is a Scottish Advocate, an English Barrister and a Cayman Islands Attorney-at-Law. He is also a registered foreign lawyer at the Bar of Western Australia.
Year of call: 2000 | Year of silk: 2017
Areas of expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Land & Property and Commercial
Since calling at the Bar, Gavin has appeared before the House of Lords, Court of Session – Inner and Outer Houses, the Scottish Land Court, the Lands Tribunal for Scotland and the Lands Valuation Appeals Court. Gavin maintains a busy practice specialising in commercial law.
Kirsty Hood KC
Year of call: 2001 | Year of silk: 2015
Areas of expertise: Commercial, Negligence and Public Law
Areas of Practice: Varied civil practice (e.g., reparation, contentious property and executry, commercial). Particular expertise in cross-border issues (i.e., questions of jurisdiction, choice of law, and the recognition of judgments), this being the field in which Kirsty obtained her PhD, and has published, led seminars, and given talks.
Year of call: 2004 | Year of silk: 2022
Areas of expertise: Crime and Public Law
Please contact the Clerks for any information regarding Chris Pirie
Year of call: 2006 | Year of silk: 2023
Areas of expertise: Public Law & Equality
Alan Caskie is Junior Counsel to the Inquiry. He has been an advocate since 2006 and prior to that a solicitor working in Glasgow and London. He is ranked as a leading junior counsel in the fields immigration and asylum and public law.
Year of call: 1995 | Year of silk: 2023
Areas of expertise: Negligence, Land & Property and Commercial
As a busy and successful Junior Counsel, Mr Davidson has built up a large civil practice in many different areas of Scots Law. He has extensive experience over a wide spectrum of litigation within the reparation field, Mr Davidson’s early career concentrated on pursuing and defending high value claims.