Details of Professional Practice
Ross practises principally in commercial dispute resolution, including real estate litigation. He appears regularly in the Commercial Court in the Court of Session, as well as in the sheriff courts. He is standing junior counsel to HMRC in Scotland, and appears regularly on behalf of HMRC and the Advocate General for Scotland in the tribunal system as well as in the Court of Session. He has appeared too in the Scottish Land Court and the Election Court; he has given oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament; and he has experience of making applications to the European Court of Human Rights.
He has experience of international arbitrations under the Arbitration Act 1996 and the LCIA rules; as well as of domestic arbitrations and expert determinations under the Scottish Arbitration Rules in the commercial property and agricultural sectors. He has been instructed too in court applications in support of arbitrations (such as s 1 petitions to recover documents for use in arbitration or motions in relation to sists for arbitration).
Qualifications
LL.B Hons (University of Edinburgh)
Ph.D (University of Edinburgh)
Dip LP (University of Edinburgh)
FCIArb
Special Interests
Construction
Company and commercial
Energy
Land Law
Professional Memberships
The Faculty of Advocates
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Fellow, European Law Institute (2011-)
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Glasgow (2012-)
Former Visiting Professor of Immovable Property law, Institute of Law, Jersey (2010-2015)
Former Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Lecturer in Corporate and Financial Law, University of Glasgow (2008-2012)
Former solicitor and notary public
Publications
Principles of International Commercial Contracts (Oxford 2nd edn 2015)
'Juristic Persons', 'Partnerships, LLPs and LPs', 'Money and Debt', &
'Corporate Insolvency' in I MacNeil (ed) Scots Commercial Law
(Edinburgh: Avizandum, 2014)
'Words and Concepts: Trust and Patrimony' in A Burrows, D Johnston
and R Zimmermann (eds) Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (Oxford, 2013)
Assignation (Edinburgh, 2008)
Appointments
Standing Junior Counsel to HMRC
Fellow, European Law Institute
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Former Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and
International Private Law, Hamburg
Languages
German
French