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Professional information

  • 2025-Present: Member of Council, The Stair Society
  • 2024: Admitted to the Faculty of Advocates
  • 2023-Present: Tutor in Public Law and Commercial Litigation, University of Edinburgh
  • 2023-2024: Devil and Lord Reid Scholar. Devilmasters: David Welsh, Usman Tariq (Intellectual Property) and Wendy Culross (Criminal)
  • 2021-2023: MacRoberts LLP
  • 2020-Present: PhD Student in Public Law, University of Glasgow, Clark Foundation Scholar
  • 2015-2019: University of Strathclyde, LLB (Hons); 2019-2020
Professional experience

Jamie specialises in Public Law and Commercial law. Jamie called to the bar as Lord Reid Scholar. In private practice, he dealt with a variety of commercial disputes. Prior to calling to the bar, Jamie was a PhD student at the University of Glasgow where the topic of his thesis related to common good constitutionalism and judicial review reform.

Jamie is an experienced public lawyer. He has assisted with judicial review proceedings related to environmental disputes, equality law, human rights , immigration and legislative challenges. In his research and practice, he also takes a particular interest Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) litigation. He has presented at a number of international conferences on Public Law and Human Rights. He is well-equipped to assist clients with judicial review in human rights and environmental proceedings.

Jamie has assisted with a variety of commercial disputes, intellectual property litigation, procurement actions and unfair prejudice petitions. Jamie also has an established practice dealing with contentious trusts and executries.

Jamie is also a tutor at the University of Edinburgh in Public Law and Commercial Litigation Jamie speaks French and Italian.

Notable cases

Public Law

Reclaiming Motion by A against the Principal Reporter and others [2025] CSIH 9 (led by Gerry Moynihan KC): instructed by the Scottish Children’s Reporter’s Administration in judicial review of a decision of a Children’s Hearing relevant to the operation of section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Jack McKenzie [2025] FAI 24: instructed by the next of kin in a Fatal Accident Inquiry into a prisoner’s death at HMYOI Polmont.

Trusts & Executries

O’Brien’s Executors -v- O’Brien (Glasgow Sheriff Court, unreported): appeared successfully for the defender in a case where the pursuers alleged forgery, undue influence, fraud and breach of trust.

Directories

Select publications
  • ‘The Nobile Officium and Public Law: An Undertapped Resource?’, 12 March 2024, UKCLA Blog.
  • ‘Public Health, Proportionality, and the ‘Freedom of Halie Kirk’: On Philip & Others v Scottish Ministers’, 2022 Public Law 4.
  • ‘The Case for Conscience: On the Common Good and Conscientious Refusals in Medicine’, Volume 19, Dec 2019, Philosophical News.
  • ‘Veil Piercing in the UK: An Evolution of Doctrinal Approaches’, 2019 2 De Lege Ferenda 1.

Notable Conference Addresses

  • “Equity and Judicial Review”, Roman Law in the 21st Century Conference 2023, National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary
  • “The Classical Legal Tradition and Political Constitutionalism”, ICON·S Annual World Public Law Conference 2021, Wroclaw, Poland