THE CA'D'ORO, 45 GORDON STREET, GLASGOW, G1 3PE, SCOTLAND
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Prof Prof Lorne D Crerar
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Work Department
Banking.
Position
One of the founding partners; chairman and senior partner of banking practice group; one of lead partners in public sector and housing practice group; principal adviser to several banking institutions.
Career
Articled McKenzie Roberton & Co; qualified 1978; partner McKenzie Roberton & Co 1974-84; partner Harper Macleod 1985; publications: ‘LSVT – The Legal and Practical Issues’; ‘The Law of Banking in Scotland’ (Butterworths’ 1997, second edition published February 2007); ‘Compulsory Competitive Tendering Law and Practice’ (Scotland-Longmans); banking titles for ‘Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia’ (2000); appointed to part-time chair of Banking ?Law at the University of Glasgow on 1st August 1997; elected Fellow of Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland; first president of Scottish Sports Law Forum; former deputy chairman of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow; former convener Standards Commission for Scotland; chairman Insuredirect.co.uk; one of the three chairmen of the Scottish government’s housing improvement task force; considered the architect of the Single Survey Scheme introduced in Scotland 1st December 2008. Chairman of Scottish Rugby Union; European Rugby Cup and Six Nations discipline committees; non-executive director Scottish Executive Justice Department 2004-10; chairman of the Independent Review of Audit, Inspection, Regulation and Scrutiny of Public Services in Scotland (the Crerar Review), appointed July 2006 and reported September 2007. Board member of Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Independent reviewer of ‘Lending Code’ for all personal borrowing in the UK, reported November 2010.
Education
Kelvinside Academy; Glasgow University (LLB Hons NP).
Leisure
Hill walking, fishing, the West Highlands of Scotland, Gartloch Golf Club.
Practice Areas
Banking (non-contentious); Public sector; Sport
