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Am Advocates, Edinburgh

From 1979 to 2022 I acted in hundreds of reported cases and thousands of unreported ones in the Court of Session, the Sheriff Court, the EAT and employment tribunals, and the Upper Tribunal. I appeared sixteen times in the House of Lords/UK Supreme Court. These are just a few examples of my cases in recent years:• For Women Scotland v Scottish Government and EHRC, [2022] CSOH 90 (effect of gender recognition certificates under Equality Act}• Armstrong and Others v Glasgow City Council, [2017] CSIH 56 (Successful challenge to council’s Job Evaluation Scheme)• M.A. v Advocate General, [2017] CSIH 46 (Discrimination in criminal injuries scheme, successfully appealed to UKSC)• McDonald v McDonald, [2017] UKSC 52 (Pensions and financial provision in divorce)• McCann v State Hospitals Board for Scotland, [2017] UKSC 31 (Smoking ban in the State Hospital)• Cumbria County Council for the nobile officium, [2016] CSIH 92 (Exercise of the nobile officium in cross-border cases)• Morrison v Carmichael, [2015] ECIH 71 (Challenge to election of MP on basis of false statements in course of election)• Mirza v Salim, 2014 SLT 875 (Successful appeal in Inner House as to damages for wrongful use of interdict)• Glasgow City Council v Unison, 2014 SLT 716 (Successful appeal in Inner House as to local government responsibility for discrimination by ALEOs)• Davies v Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care 2013 SC (UKSC) 186 (successful appeal in Inner House and Supreme Court on transitional provisions as to care regulation)• RM v Scottish Ministers 2013 SC (UKSC) 139 (successful judicial review appeal to Supreme Court; a constitutional milestone in declaring Government’s duty to lay regulations before Parliament)• Eba Petitioner 2012 SC (UKSC) 1 (successful appeal in Inner House and Supreme Court, leading case on ambit of judicial review of tribunals)

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