| 0 | Professor Laura Macgregor Professor of Commercial Contract Law Edinburgh University Laura Macgregor is Professor of Commercial Contract Law and also Visiting Professor in International Commercial Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen. Before joining Edinburgh Law School, Laura spent five years as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Before becoming an academic Laura spent several years as a solicitor in practice with a major Scottish law firm in Edinburgh. She is Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law. This is a research centre which aims to build stronger links between academia and the various parts of the legal community in Scotland. Laura's interests lie in the field of commercial law, specifically contract law, agency law and partnership. Her research considers Scots law in its comparative context, both European and global. She is also interested in legal history. |
| Chris Mackay Partner Burness and Paull Chris specialises in the fields of projects and construction work and is a recognised expert in both areas. He has an extensive knowledge and experience of managing the projects process, including advising on procurement, negotiated procedure and competitive dialogue. He has advised a wide range of clients, public and private, on construction procurement and on construction dispute resolution advising on high value arbitrations (including International ICC), adjudications, litigations and mediations. He is a Law Society of Scotland accredited expert in both Construction and Arbitration, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has experience of acting as an independent expert regarding solicitor professional negligence. | |
| Cat Maclean Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution MBM Commercial Cat is a partner at MBM Commercial LLP and currently heads up their Dispute Resolution Team. She has law degrees in English and French Law from Leicester, and in Scots Law from Edinburgh, and holds a Diplome d’Etudes Juridiques Francaises from the Universite Robert Schumann in Strasbourg. Prior to joining MBM in 2008 she spent several years in a large litigation practice in Edinburgh, before becoming an Advocate at the Scottish Bar in 1998. She spent 10 years in busy practice as an advocate before joining MBM, and having undertaken cases in the Sheriff Court, the Court of Session and the Appeal Court, she has been able to apply her extensive litigation and courtroom experience to the work she now undertakes for her clients. She is a Solicitor Advocate with extended Rights of Audience in the Court of Session and the Supreme Court, and she sits on the Lord President’s Consultative Committee on Commercial Actions, chaired by Lord Woolman. Her clients include individuals, technology companies, property developers and entrepreneurs. She specialises in financial claims, against banks and other financial institutions, and wins such as RBS v O Donnell and McDonald and RBS v Carlyle are testament to her skill and determination. She is the only Scottish member of the Financial Services Lawyers Association, and the sole Scottish representative of the International Banking Litigation Network, an association of law firms across Europe who are willing to handle complex claims against banks and who have the required level of knowledge and experience to do so. She is also the founder of the banking conference series, and is regularly quoted in the financial press. | |
| John Macleod Lecturer in Commercial Law Glasgow University After graduating LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, John MacLeod worked as a Legal Assistant at the Scottish Law Commission. Thereafter he undertook PhD studies at the University of Edinburgh, writing his dissertation on “Fraud and Voidable Transfer: Scots Law in European Context” and spending a year at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Since 2010 he has been a Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow. He is a member of the Obligations Committee of the Law Society of Scotland and of the Advisory Group to the Scottish Law Commission on the Moveable Transactions Project. | |
| John Paul Sheridan Partner TLT Solicitors John Paul specialises in litigation. He is a solicitor advocate with rights of audience in the Court of Session and UK Supreme Court. He has particular expertise in financial services litigation and professional negligence claims against solicitors, surveyors and architects. He also specialises in complex contractual, commercial and property related disputes. He is independently recognised as an expert in the field of Dispute Resolution by Chambers UK and as a leading individual by Legal 500. John Paul qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and as a solicitor advocate in 2005. He became a partner in TLT LLP and was a director of TLT Scotland Ltd following the merger with Anderson Fyfe in July 2012. He is the Convener of the Law Society of Scotland's Obligations Committee. | |
| Ann Stewart Property and Professional Development adviser and Senior Professional Support Lawyer Shepherd and Wedderburn Ann is a Property and Professional Development Adviser, and a senior professional support lawyer specialising in all aspects of commercial property. Coming from a background of over 20 years’ transactional experience, she provides a comprehensive support service to Scottish commercial property lawyers, which includes knowledge and resource development, in-house counsel, marketing and business enhancement, and development and delivery of training. Ann's Knowledge Management role includes advising on, devising and implementing strategy for the management, development and delivery of knowledge and information in the firm and supporting learning and development. Ann is a founder member of the award-winning Property Standardisation Group, co-author of 'Conveyancing Practice in Scotland: 6th edition' and was awarded the Professional Development Certificate in Knowledge Management from the University of Edinburgh in 2012. | |
