Laura Irvine

Practice Areas

Laura is Managing Partner and Head of the Regulatory Team at Davidson Chalmers Stewart. She is also an accredited specialist in Data Protection law and a Solicitor Advocate.

She represents clients who find themselves in trouble with a range of regulators and as a former prosecutor, is well placed to assist with investigations and prosecutions.

She is passionate about data protection and information law and was part of the only legal team in the UK to have successfully overturned a DPA fine. She provides contentious and non-contentious advice in this complex area of law across a range of sectors from big tech to charities. She wrote the Law Society of Scotland’s Guide to the GDPR and chairs the Society’s Privacy Committee.

Career

University of Edinburgh: LLB (Hons); Keele University: MA in Criminology; Strathclyde University: LLM Human Rights Law; LLB (Hons) Qualified 2000; and has worked with SCCRC, COPFS, DLA Piper, BTO Solicitors and has been Partner since 2017.

Professional Memberships

Law Society of Scotland; Society for Computers and Law; Information Records Management Society.

Laura is a director of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre and co-founder of Protectors of Data Scotland, a group of ‘data protection geeks’ with almost 400 members.

Personal

Education: University of Edinburgh: LLB (Hons); Keele University: MA in Criminology; Strathclyde University: LLM Human Rights Law; LLB (Hons) Qualified 2000