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Leading Individual 2021

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Multi-award winning lawyer

Expertise recognised by Leading Legal Directory and his own peers

Expertise recognised by Leading Legal Directory and his own peers

Silk of the Year - The Law Awards of Scotland, November 2018. 

Silk of the Year Finalist in 2017 and 2019.

The Firm Magazine’s Criminal Lawyer of the Year in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013 (there was no award in this category in 2012 and it has not been awarded since 2013). No other lawyer has received this award on 4 consecutive occasions.

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Expertise recognised by Leading Legal Directory and his own peers

Expertise recognised by Leading Legal Directory and his own peers

Expertise recognised by Leading Legal Directory and his own peers

Leading Individual and Top Tier Firm - 2021 Edition of Legal 500.

Instructed by leading firms across Scotland in the most serious, difficult and demanding criminal cases.

Particularly experienced and able in cases involving all aspects of expert evidence.

Over thirty years of court experience at all levels, including three appearances as leader at the UK Supreme Court

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Human rights, independent reviews and public inquiries

Expertise recognised by Leading Legal Directory and his own peers

Human rights, independent reviews and public inquiries

 Instructed in Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry since 2017 by main survivors group, INCAS.

Over 25 years involvement in human rights, particularly in criminal cases.

Independent chair of five reviews - stop and search, biometrics in policing, the impact on communities of the policing of the Miners' Strike of 1984/85 - and, currently, a major re

 Instructed in Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry since 2017 by main survivors group, INCAS.

Over 25 years involvement in human rights, particularly in criminal cases.

Independent chair of five reviews - stop and search, biometrics in policing, the impact on communities of the policing of the Miners' Strike of 1984/85 - and, currently, a major review of Mental Health legislation. In addition to these reviews for the Scottish Government, during the Coronavirus Crisis, John was asked to chair an Independent Advisory Group looking at the use by Police Scotland of temporary emergency powers.


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