Blackadders LLP

Private Client

Partner

Dale has over 25 years of experience covering wills, tax planning, executries and trusts.  

For clients planning their wills and succession matters, he gives practical advice and is adept at explaining what can be quite tricky issues in an easier-to-understand manner.  

His experience in executry and trust administration including many estates with a foreign element, and those with complex tax issues to be addressed, enables him to give tailored advice, anticipating and avoiding potential pitfalls which could otherwise arise.

His expertise in taxes, particularly inheritance tax, ensures estates are dealt with in the most tax efficient manner.  

Dale is also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and can advise clients with cross-border issues.

Trained Gray and Connochie, Aberdeen
Qualified 1997
Partner Blackadders 2022
British Railways Board Policy Unit – Operational Research Analyst 1984 – 1989
APACS – Strategy Analyst 1989-1991
Gray and Connochie, Aberdeen  1991-1997
Paull & Williamsons, Aberdeen 1998-2000
Thorntons, Dundee 2000-2002
Gillespie Macandrew, Edinburgh 2002-2007
HBJ Gateley Wareing, Edinburgh 2007-2014
Blackadders 2014
University of Edinburgh – Diploma Tutor (Private Client) 2002 – 2009
Senior Tutor (Private Client and Advanced Private Client) 2009 – 2022
University of Dundee – External Examiner (Private Client) 2016-2020

Law Society of Scotland, Solicitor,
Law Society (England & Wales), Solicitor,
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP),
Leading Lawyer - Legal 500

University of Aberdeen BSc (Hons) Mathematics 1984
University of Sussex MSc Operational Research 1986
University of Aberdeen, Diploma in Legal Practice  1995