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Professional information

  • 2025 – 2026: Devilling to Adam McKinlay, Ross Anderson and Jonathan Crowe
  • 2021 – 2025: Senior Associate (formerly Associate), Pinsent Masons LLP
  • 2017 – 2021: Associate (formerly trainee solicitor), CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
  • 2016 – 2017: LLM in International Business Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science
  • 2015 – 2016: Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, The University of Strathclyde
  • 2011 – 2015: LLB Honours, The University of Strathclyde
Professional experience

Mitchell is an experienced litigator with a broad commercial and public law practice. His experience includes corporate, construction, competition, product liability, professional negligence, property and public law disputes.

 

Mitchell has litigated frequently in both the Scottish and English courts, and before arbitral tribunals. He has significant experience in complex and high-value disputes, including those with international elements. He is experienced in group actions.

Notable cases
  • Qatar Airways Group QCSC v Airbus SAS. Acting for Qatar Airways in a multi-billion dollar English High Court claim against Airbus regarding, among other things, alleged manufacturing and design defects in relation to circa 35 aircraft. Related decisions include [2022] EWHC 1247 (TCC). (As a solicitor.)

 

Competition

  • Second Wave Trucks Proceedings. Acting for DAF, a leading European truck manufacturer, in significant and high-value competition follow-on damages actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The “Second Wave Trucks Proceedings” comprised of claims from over 800 claimants against 6 major manufacturers. Related decisions include [2024] CAT 2. (As a solicitor.)

 

Construction

  • Hospital dispute. Acting for Laing O’Rourke, a major UK construction company, in English High Court litigation concerning alleged defects in a mental health hospital. Related decisions include Laing O’Rourke Delivery Ltd v Sweett (UK) Ltd [2024] EWHC 1088 (TCC), [2024] T.C.L.R. 5 (As a solicitor.)
  • LCIA Arbitration. Acting for a global energy company defending a circa $170m USD LCIA arbitration brought by a subcontractor in relation to variations, delays and ultimate termination of a contract for the construction of facilities to support the redevelopment of an oil field in Iraq. (As a solicitor.)
  • Scottish arbitration. Acting for a UK construction company defending a circa £200m arbitration brought following the termination of a contract for the construction of an energy from waste plant. The arbitration was conducted under the Scottish Arbitration Rules. (As a solicitor.)
  • Aberdeen harbour. Acting for Dragados, a Spanish contractor, in a significant number of adjudications and subsequent litigation concerning a harbour project. Related decisions include Van Oord UK v Dragados UK Ltd [2021] CSIH 50, 2021 S.L.T. 1317 (As a solicitor.)
  • Cladding dispute. Acting for Dundee University in parallel arbitration and court actions concerning defective cladding. (As a solicitor.)

 

Group proceedings

  • Nuisance group action. Acting for Viridor, a major UK energy from waste operator, in relation to a mass nuisance claim concerning the operations of one of its facilities, raised in Liverpool County Court by 200 claimants. (As a solicitor.)

 

Property

  • Property arbitration. Acting for a Scottish technology company in relation to a property arbitration concerning alleged issues with its office. (As a solicitor.)

 

Public Law

  • Rosebank judicial review. Acting for Ithaca, major North Sea oil and gas company, in judicial review proceedings in the Court of Session concerning decisions to approve the development of a key asset in the North Sea. The decision is Greenpeace Ltd v Advocate General for Scotland [2025] CSOH 10, 2025 S.L.T 303 (As a solicitor.)
  • Prospectus judicial review. Acting for Ithaca in judicial review proceedings concerning the FCA’s decision to approve Ithaca’s prospectus, in a challenge brought by the campaign group ClientEarth. The decision is (on the application of ClientEarth) v Financial Conduct Authority [2023] EWHC 3301 (Admin), [2024] 2 C.M.L.R. 42. (As a solicitor.)
Select publications
  • “The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 – Time for reform?” S.L.T. 2026, 8, 67-72
  • The Chapter “Collective Litigation in the Product Liability Space: The Evolving UK Landscape” (updated for 2024) in the International Comparative Law Guide’s 2024 Edition, with Jacqueline Harris
  • The Chapter “Collective Litigation in the Product Liability Space: The Evolving UK Landscape” (2023) in the International Comparative Law Guide’s 2023 Edition, with Jacqueline Harris
  • “Arbitration in the next 10 Years”, Young Arbitration Review (43rd Edition – December 2021), with Laura West