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Professional information

  • 2024: Appointed as a Standing Junior to the Advocate General for Scotland
  • 2023: Admitted to the Faculty of Advocates
  • Devilmasters: Ewen Campbell, Ross Anderson and Frances Connor
  • 2019 – 2022: Associate (formerly Trainee Solicitor), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London and Paris) (English-qualified solicitor)
  • 2018: Stagiaire, Court of Justice of the European Union
  • 2018 – 2019: Graduate Diploma in Law (Exemptions) and Legal Practice Course, BPP University
  • 2013 – 2017: LL.B (Hons) (First Class) in Scots Law with French Legal Studies, University of Glasgow and Université de Strasbourg
Professional experience

Rachel has a varied public law and commercial law practice, with a particular interest in public procurement and competition disputes. In 2024, she was appointed as a Standing Junior to the Advocate General for Scotland.

Notable cases

Public procucurement

  • Roche Diagnostics Ltd v Greater Glasgow Health Board (No 3) 2024 SLT 1239 (led by Lord Keen of Elie KC): a decision on leave to reclaim in the context of a challenge to the abandonment of a procurement exercise.
  • Roche Diagnostics Ltd v Greater Glasgow Health Board (No 2) 2024 SLT 1069 (led by Lord Keen of Elie KC): a decision on the scope of “without prejudice” privilege and waiver of legal professional privilege in the context of a procurement challenge.
  • Amey OW Ltd v North Lanarkshire Council 2024 CSOH 66 (led by Garry Borland KC): a decision on whether to lift the automatic suspension under regulation 89 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
  • Roche Diagnostics Ltd v Greater Glasgow Health Board (No 2) 2024 SLT 1069 (led by Lord Keen of Elie KC): a decision following debate on the relevancy of averments alleging an unlawful means conspiracy and the delict of causing unlawful means in the context of a challenge to the abandonment of a procurement exercise.

Public law

  • Petitions by Greenpeace and Uplift for Judicial Review [2025] CSOH 10 (led by John MacGregor KC): instructed for Equinor UK Limited in judicial reviews of the decisions to consent to the Rosebank oil and gas development.
  • Petition of Greater Glasgow Health Board for Judicial Review [2025] CSOH 12 (led by John MacGregor KC): instructed for the Chair of the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry in a judicial review of the Chair’s decision to refuse to receive into evidence an expert report instructed by the petitioner, and to call its authors to give evidence at an upcoming hearing diet.
  • Brown v Glasgow City Council 2024 SLT 1025 (led by Alasdair Burnet KC): judicial review of a local authority’s planning decision.

Commercial law

  • Renfrewshire Council v HR150 Ltd (led by the Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop KC): the determination of whether certain payment provisions were inter naturalia of a lease.
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