The Rt. Hon. Lord Glennie (Arbitrator)

Professional Experience

Lord Glennie is returning to the bar after some 15 years on the bench.  He has joined Axiom Advocates as an arbitrator member only, with a view to accepting appointments as an arbitrator (both domestic and international).  He has also re-joined his London chambers, Twenty Essex, again as an arbitrator member.

In his career at the bar in commercial chambers in London, Angus Glennie appeared in the Commercial and Admiralty courts, and in the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords, as well as in other jurisdictions such as Gibraltar and Brunei.  He also appeared regularly as counsel in arbitrations under LMAA, LCIA and ICC rules (as well as before commodity trade associations) and acted as arbitrator in arbitrations under such rules.

In his practice at the bar in Scotland, Angus Glennie appeared frequently in the Commercial court in Edinburgh and was also instructed as counsel in arbitrations relating to commercial and construction disputes.

After being appointed to the bench in 2005, Lord Glennie was for four years (2007-2011) the principal commercial judge.  With the coming into force of the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010, he was appointed an arbitration judge in 2010, dealing with the first cases to come before the court under the Act.  He was also an intellectual property judge and a judge of the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber).  He was appointed to the Inner House in 2016.

In 2015-6 Lord Glennie chaired a committee looking into the possibility of setting up an Energy and Natural Resources Court within the Court of Session.

He has been appointed the next Chair of the Scottish Arbitration Centre, and will act as Vice-Chair of the Centre until he takes up that position after ICCA 2020 (now delayed until September 2021).

He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Hon FCIArb).