The Right Hon. Lord Drummond Young

Lord Drummond Young specializes in financial and commercial law. In the Court of Session he was a judge of the Commercial Court from 2001 to 2012, and was required to adjudicate on numerous commercial and financial disputes. The commercial work involved a wide range of building and other contracts. He also dealt with most of the cases in the Court involving insolvency, trusts, pension schemes and company law. In the Inner House much of his work, including opinions of the Court written by him, involved commercial law, financial law and taxation. Apart from commercial contracts, his work has covered the administration of pension schemes, company law, agency, and the fiduciary duties of directors and agents. He has also dealt with the impact of government or EU regulation, such as public procurement legislation, on commercial dealings, and with the application of private international law and international treaties to commercial transactions.

He was Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission from 2007 to 2012. While at the Commission he became the lead Commissioner in the major project on Trust Law, which resulted in the Report on Trust Law (Scot Law Com No 239, 2014). He also took part in projects concerned with reform of the law on land registration and on moveable property.