Westwater Advocates
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Westwater Advocates
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Stable Director: Janys M Scott KC, 0131 226 5071
Advocates Clerk: Sheila Westwater
Deputy Clerks: Christina Ballantyne, Jane Morrison, Debbie Dawson
Tenants: 35
Silks: 8
THE CHAMBERS
Westwater Advocates is one of Scotland’s longest established and largest multi-disciplinary stables, with 35 advocate members including eight silks. Sheila Westwater has been the clerk since 1991 and is assisted by Christina Ballantyne, Jane Morrison and Debbie Dawson. The clerks provide excellent service, advising on the availability and suitability of advocates for particular work and always willing to agree fees in advance.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
At all levels of seniority, the stable offers advocates whose experience includes commercial, contract, construction (including adjudication), insolvency, financial provision on divorce, co-habitation and all aspects of public and private child law, employment and disciplinary matters, personal injury, professional (including medical) negligence, mental health, health and safety, agricultural, land, property, trusts and executry, pensions, media, data protection, judicial review and licensing.
Advocates Clerk: Sheila Westwater
Deputy Clerks: Christina Ballantyne, Jane Morrison, Debbie Dawson
Tenants: 35
Silks: 8
THE CHAMBERS
Westwater Advocates is one of Scotland’s longest established and largest multi-disciplinary stables, with 35 advocate members including eight silks. Sheila Westwater has been the clerk since 1991 and is assisted by Christina Ballantyne, Jane Morrison and Debbie Dawson. The clerks provide excellent service, advising on the availability and suitability of advocates for particular work and always willing to agree fees in advance.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
At all levels of seniority, the stable offers advocates whose experience includes commercial, contract, construction (including adjudication), insolvency, financial provision on divorce, co-habitation and all aspects of public and private child law, employment and disciplinary matters, personal injury, professional (including medical) negligence, mental health, health and safety, agricultural, land, property, trusts and executry, pensions, media, data protection, judicial review and licensing.
Members
- James A Peoples KC (1979) (KC-1994)
- Nick Ellis KC (1990) (KC-2002)
- Calum H S MacNeill KC (1992) (KC-2007)
- Janys M Scott KC (1992) (KC-2007)
- Lynda J Brabender KC (2005) (KC-2017)
- Ruth Innes KC (2005) (KC-2019)
- Robert Hayhow KC (1997) (KC – 2021)
- Kirsty Malcolm KC (2007) (KC – 2021)
- Desmond Cheyne (1986)
- Maggie Hughes (1991)
- Ian Sharpe (1992)
- Isabella Ennis (1993)
- Andrew MacMillan (1995)
- Greg Cunningham (1997)
- Bryan Heaney (1999)
- Greg Sanders (2001)
- Laura Wray (2003)
- Adrian Stalker (2007)
- Alice Stobart (2007)
- David Hay (2008)
- Alison M Wild (2008)
- Colin Edward (2010)
- Kenneth McGuire (2010)
- Julianna F Cartwright (2011)
- Neil MacDougall (2011)
- Scott McAlpine (2012)
- David Anderson (2014)
- Rachel Shewan (2014)
- Anne Bennie (2015)
- Jane Rattray (2015)
- Amy J Donachie (2018)
- Melanie Barbour (2020)
- Antonia Welsh (2020)
- Mark Allison (2021)
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- EdinburghFaculty of Advocates, Parliament House, Parliament Square, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, UK, EH1 1RF
- Web: www.westwateradvocates.com
- Tel: (0131) 260 5700
- Fax: (0131) 225 3642
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