Education & Professional Career to Date

Selected Cases

• East Renfrewshire Council v William Wright [2024] CSOH 70

  Sole counsel for local authority in case concerning access to information from prior court proceedings

• Jepuson UK Ltd v E&A International Ltd [2024] SC EDIN 35

  Sole counsel in a Sheriff Court commercial dispute concerning unregistered design rights in fashion accessories including the obtaining of interim interdict and subsequent minute for breach of interdict.

• Public Inquiry

  Acting for a number of major media organisations in respect of applications for restrictions on evidence in the context of a Scottish statutory public inquiry

• Pursuit Marketing Ltd v Thomson [2023] CSOH 22

  Counsel for a defender in an action relating to alleged misuse of confidential information and restraints of trade.

• Asertis Ltd v Dunn [2022] CSOH 87

  Counsel for the defender in an insolvency action relating to recovery of payments

• Scottish Legal Complaints Commission against Donald Roderick Murray & Anor [2022] CSIH 46, 2023 SC 10 and [2022] CSIH 54

  Sole counsel before the Inner House in a major case concerning legal professional privilege and the statutory powers of a regulator to compel disclosure

• Mayfly GWR Ltda v Swire Oilfield Services do Brazil Ltda [2022] CSOH 26

  Junior counsel in Outer House (Commercial Court) preliminary proof concerning the application of Brazilian law to a major contractual dispute
  

• Construction Arbitration (Dubai International Arbitration Centre)

  Junior counsel in a construction dispute heard by a panel of three arbitrators under the DIAC Arbitration Rules 2007

• Note of Objections to the Auditor's Report (Beroghani - Leave to Appeal from the Upper Tribunal) [2021] CSIH 3

  Junior counsel in Inner House hearing of note of objection against the Auditor’s decision relating to the interpretation of the regulations governing civil legal aid

• Edinburgh Tram Inquiry

  Researcher for Counsel and for the Solicitor to the Inquiry involved in researching factual, technical and legal issues falling within the remit of the Inquiry

• Fundacion Pimjo Associacion Civil v Aguilar & Aguilar Limited [2015] NZHC 1402

  Junior counsel in opposed application by trustee for their costs to be paid from the trust fund in the context of a cross-border trust dispute

• Macken v Jervis [2014] NZHC 3408

  Sole counsel in four day trial in relation to landlocked dispute including expert evidence as to planning and valuation issues

• TFG Society Incorporated v Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand [2014] NZHC 604

  Junior counsel (speaking role) in judicial review of regulator’s decision to accept compliance report in relation to conditions imposed on an investment in a New Zealand company

• Smith v Penney [2014] NZHC 1850

  Sole counsel in application for enforcement of former trustee’s obligations to new trustees in respect of provision of information and records of trust

• Commercial Arbitration

  Junior counsel in a long-running, high value New Zealand based arbitration in relation to sale of a pharmaceutical business to an international purchaser and effects of earn-out agreement agreed as a part of that sale