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Professional information

  • 2025-Present: Trustee of the Stair Society
  • 2024: Admitted to the Faculty of Advocates
  • 2023-Present: Tutor in Public Law and Commercial Litigation, University of Edinburgh
  • 2023-2024: Devil and Lord Reid Scholar. Devilmasters: David Welsh, Usman Tariq (Intellectual Property) and Wendy Culross (Criminal)
  • 2021-2023: MacRoberts LLP
  • 2020-Present: PhD Student in Public Law, University of Glasgow, Clark Foundation Scholar
  • 2015-2019: University of Strathclyde, LLB (Hons); 2019-2020
Professional experience

Jamie specialises in Public Law and Commercial law. Jamie called to the bar as Lord Reid Scholar. In private practice, he dealt with a variety of commercial disputes. Prior to calling to the bar, Jamie was a PhD student at the University of Glasgow where the topic of his thesis related to common good constitutionalism and judicial review reform.

Jamie is an experienced public lawyer. He has assisted with judicial review proceedings related to environmental disputes, human rights claims, immigration appeals and other commercial judicial review proceedings. In his research and practice, he also takes a particular interest Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) litigation. He has presented at a number of international conferences on Public Law and Human Rights. He is well-equipped to assist clients with judicial review in human rights and environmental proceedings.

Jamie has assisted with a variety of commercial matters, such as contractual disputes, intellectual property litigation, procurement cases and unfair prejudice petitions. Jamie also has an established practice dealing with contentious executries. He accepts instructions in all matters related to executries and trusts.

Jamie is also a tutor at the University of Edinburgh in Public Law and Commercial Litigation Jamie speaks French and Italian.

Notable cases

Public Law

Reclaiming Motion by A against the Principal Reporter and others (led by Gerry Moynihan KC): instructed by the Scottish Children’s Reporter’s Administration in judicial review of a decision of a Children’s Hearing relevant to the operation of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Directories

Select publications
  • ‘The Nobile Officium and Public Law: An Undertapped Resource?, 12 March 2024, UKCLA Blog.
  • ‘Public Health, Proportionality, and the ‘Freedom of Halie Kirk’: On Philip & Others v Scottish Ministers’, 2022 Public Law 4.
  • ‘The Case for Conscience: On the Common Good and Conscientious Refusals in Medicine’, Volume 19, Dec 2019, Philosophical News.
  • ‘Veil Piercing in the UK: An Evolution of Doctrinal Approaches’, 2019 2 De Lege Ferenda 1.