Education & Professional Career to Date

Appointments

• Second Standing Junior to the Scottish Government (2016–present)
• Standing Junior to the Scottish Government (2012–2016)
• Ad hoc Advocate Depute (2010–2016)
• Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) (2017–present)

Selected Cases

• RSPB v Scottish Ministers [2017] CSIH 31

  Judicial review of consents for wind farms in the Forth and Tay (Inner House and Outer House including application for protected expenses orders)

• Warner v Scapa Flow Charters [2017] CSIH13

  The timebar provisions of the Athens Convention and their relationship with domestic law (Inner House and Outer House)

• P v Scottish Ministers [2017] CSOH 33

  Judicial review of disclosure of historic criminal convictions on PVG certificate
  

• Declan Hainey FAI

  Long running Fatal Accident Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Declan Hainey, September 2014, Sheriff Anderson

• Rosemary Cairns v. Northern Lighthouse Board and Calypso Marine Limited [2013] CSOH 22

  Proof on liability involving questions of negligence in the operation of a boat and indemnity issues

• Sarah Marshall v Fife Health Board, 25 January 2012

  Civil jury trial in dental negligence case

• Pamela Swarbrick v Ministry of Defence, 19 January 2011

  Civil jury trial in which the mother of an RAF serviceman killed in Afghanistan sought damages from the MOD

• Christina Fraser FAI

  Fatal Accident Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Christina Fraser, June 2010, Sheriff Sutherland

• Nicola Reid v David Ogilvie and Alexander Forrest, 15 January 2010

  Civil jury trial involving questions of liability and quantum in a serious road traffic accident involving a pregnant driver

• Reverend Donald Smith and another v Reverend John Morrison and others [2009] CSOH 113; [2011] CSIH 52

  Procedure roll and reclaiming motion in a property case arising out of a secession from the church

• Elizabeth Gordon v Mark Martin Lynch [2009] CSOH 116

  Proof in a catastrophic brain injury case

• John Telfer v Gordon MacPherson, 6 February 2008

  Civil jury trial in which a cyclist sought damages from another cyclist who was part of the same touring group

• Enid Smith v Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust [2007] CSOH 08

  Proof in a complex neurosurgical medical negligence proof

• Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) v Free Church of Scotland [2005] CSOH 46

  4 week procedure roll involving an examination of adherence to the fundamental principles of the church

• Gillies Ramsay Diamond v PJW Enterprises Ltd [2004] SC 430

  Reclaiming motion in adjudication case