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Brodies LLP

2 BLYTHSWOOD SQUARE, GLASGOW, G2 4AD, SCOTLAND

Tel:: Work 0141 248 4672
Fax:: Fax 0141 221 9270

Web:: www.brodies.co.uk
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Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen

Professor Professor Kenneth Ross

Tel:: Work +44 141 245 6727
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Commercial property.

Position

Partner specialising in commercial property, acting particularly for developers, including Barratt Homes Limited. Also involved in environmental law, ranging from contaminated land issues within commercial property to pure environmental law issues. Clients include ICI plc and Renfrewshire Council.

Career

Trained Moncrieff Warren, Paterson & Co, Glasgow, qualified 1982; assistant McClure Naismith, Glasgow 1982-84; partner Robertson Chalmers & Auld, Glasgow 1984-86; partner Bishop & Robertson Chalmers, Glasgow 1986-2000; partner Morison Bishop, Glasgow 2000-03; partner Bishops Solicitors LLP, Glasgow 2003-07; partner Brodies LLP 2007, following acquisition of Bishops. Honorary professor at Glasgow University. Author of chapter on contaminated land in Green’s ‘Guide to Environmental Law in Scotland’.

Member

Convenor of the Law Society of Scotland environmental law committee; member of the national council of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA).

Education

Douglas Academy, Milngavie; Glasgow University (1980 LLB first class).

Practice Areas

Environment; Property - commercial property; Insolvency and corporate recovery

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