Year of Call: 1992
Year of Silk: 2007

Areas of Practice:
- Commercial
- Employment
- Professional Negligence
- Construction
- Intellectual Property

Calum H S MacNeill QC

Calum has been with the Westwater stable since he called to the Bar in 1992. In that time he has developed a practice in a wide range of civil litigation with emphases on commercial law, professional negligence, employment law and construction.

For three years (1998 - 2001) he was an Advocate Depute prosecuting serious crime in the High Court, a stage in his career which provided him with an invaluable store of trial experience. For another three years he was Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Ministers, giving him substantial experience in several areas of public law.

His skill-set is not confined to adversarial dispute resolution. He is a mediator accredited with the London-based Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR).  His ability as a mediator in contentious matters has been recognised, notably in a recent cross-border engineering dispute, and he has acted as assistant mediator in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

He was recently named as one of the “leaders at the bar” in commercial work by Chambers Directory and will be again in the 2009 edition.

His ability in teaching advocacy skills has long been recognised by the Faculty of Advocates. For several years now he has been an instructor on the foundation course for intrants to the Faculty and he has also accepted invitations to lead courses for litigators in firms of solicitors in Scotland and England.

He took silk in 2007.

Address: 14 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6LB
Mobile: 07801 257878
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