The stable is delighted to welcome three new advocates after they called to the bar today.
Anne Bennie, Vincent Lunny and Jane Rattray join the stable after successfully completing the Faculty’s rigorous devilling course.
Anne Bennie, who was a Litigation Partner at Levy & McRae Solicitors for eight years, specialises in employment, commercial, professional negligence and personal injury litigation. As well as being the instructing solicitor in many Court of Session actions, Anne has appeared in the Sheriff Court, Employment Tribunal in England and Scotland and the EAT. She has also represented families and other interested parties at many Fatal Accident Inquiries.
Vincent Lunny‘s background is in both criminal and civil litigation, having worked at Levy & McRae Solicitors then the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service as a Senior Procurator Fiscal Depute. He spent three years within the Office of the Prosecutor of the United Nations tribunal dealing with war crimes and two years seconded to Eurojust (the EU’s judicial co-operation body). Since then he has worked for the Scottish Football Association as their first Compliance Officer.
Jane Rattray has a particular interest in family and child law and, during her devilling to Ruth Innes, she has already had her first taste of the Supreme Court. Jane had a broad-based practice as a solicitor and is also experienced in contract, consumer legislation, reparation, property, commercial and residential leases, insolvency, judicial review and EU law.
Clerk Sheila Westwater said “I am delighted to welcome Anne, Vincent and Jane to Westwater Advocates. I am confident that they will have bright futures and that they will each be an asset to the stable. They have very different backgrounds and areas of practice, which is wonderful for our instructing solicitors, who have come to rely on the talents of our members across a broad range of areas of expertise.”