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Ampersand provides the full range of services offered by the Scottish Bar with core strengths in Commercial, Planning, Public and Reparation law, both in contentious and non-contentious work, including advocacy, advice, and related written work.
The stable: Ampersand is committed to best practice, both as Advocates practising at the Scottish Bar and in the way Ampersand works with clients.
It is Ampersand’s commitment to delivering best practice that has led to Ampersand being widely regarded as the Civil Law Stable of Choice in Scotland.
Amongst Ampersand’s members are some of the Scottish Bar’s most highly rated and successful Queen’s Counsel and junior Counsel. Members of the Stable are instructed by UK and overseas law firms, by governmental and in-house legal departments and by other professionals and consultants able to instruct counsel directly.
The stable was established in 1981. It presently has 51 members, including 20 Queen’s Counsel. The clerks place great emphasis on their service to solicitors and clients and are always happy to advise what expertise is available among our membership in order to deal with a particular issue, in a specified timescale and at what cost. Information about members and their areas of practice is also available on the stable’s website: www.ampersandstable.com.
Types of work undertaken: Ampersand has formidable strength in the fields of commercial law, planning and environmental law, public law and human rights, personal injury and negligence work. In the commercial law sphere, there is particular expertise in relation to corporate law, construction and engineering litigation, contractual disputes, commercial property issues, and professional negligence cases. In addition, expert assistance is available in relation to intellectual property matters, media and defamation and employment cases. In the public law and human rights arena, the work of the stable is extensive, with members acting both for and against central government agencies, the Scottish Government , local authorities, and regulatory bodies. Members of the stable have been instructed in many of the leading cases arising out of devolution and the incorporation into law of the European Convention on Human Rights. The stable also has acknowledged expertise in the substantive law of the European Union. Within the membership there are a number of standing junior counsel for UK government departments and branches of the Scottish Government. Members of the stable practise in all the Scottish civil courts, as well as in tribunals, inquiries, arbitrations, adjudications, and mediations. Members of the stable are also regularly instructed to appear in the UK Supreme Court (formerly House of Lords and the Privy Council), and have appeared before the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Members also appear in the criminal courts.
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