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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

2ND FLOOR, 7 CASTLE STREET, EDINBURGH, EH2 3AH, SCOTLAND

Rob Wilson

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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

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Dispute resolution – Scotland.

Position

Partner in the Edinburgh office; dual qualified and specialises in dispute resolution both north and south of the border; in particular, he works with the insurance industry in relation to professional indemnity matters; much of his work relates to disputes of a construction/engineering nature; also works closely with energy companies, advising on contentious contractual issues; has experience of mediation and arbitration and is an ADR Group-accredited mediator.

Career

Trained Shepherd & Wedderburn 1991-93; qualified 1993 (Scotland); solicitor Murray Beith Murray 1993-94; solicitor Anderson Strathern 1994-95; solicitor McGrigor Donald; solicitor CMS Cameron McKenna 1998-2004; qualified 1999 (England & Wales); partner 2004 to date.

Member

Law Society of Scotland; Law Society; Society of Writers to her Majesty’s Signet; Society of Construction Law; RICS Standing Review Committee; ICC Task Force on the New York Convention of 1958; Law Society of Scotland Civil Justice Committee and Law Society of Scotland Remuneration Committee.

Education

University of Glasgow (1990 LLB Hons; 1991 Dip LP).

Leisure

Family, golf, shooting, hill walking.

Practice Areas

Construction - contentious; Litigation - commercial; Professional negligence

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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

  • Access to justice: protective costs orders in planning challenges

    Third parties and competing developers have no rights of appeal to the Secretary of State against planning decisions. Disappointed applicants can appeal to the Secretary of State and can have the merits of the application reconsidered. The only remedy available to a disappointed third party is a challenge by way of judicial review in the High Court on a point of law. The sense of frustration and disempowerment this creates has not been helped by the increasing complexity of the planning process and the use of consultation to legitimise decisions that many perceive may already have been taken.
    - CMS Group

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