Ian S. Forrester K.C.

Year of Call: 1972

Year of Silk: 1988

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Qualifications

M.A. University of Glasgow

LL.B University of Glasgow

M.C.L. Tulane University, Louisiana

Special interests

Public law, including judicial review and human rights

Alternative dispute resolution

Clerks

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0131 260 5674

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Jennifer Dunn

Sheena Hume

Shawn McArthur

Kathryn Ferguson

Biography

Ian Forrester has conducted competition cases in North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

He has represented public authorities, trade associations, the European Commission, private citizens and a wide range of companies including GSK, Microsoft, Canon, Toyota, Servier, Pfizer and others.

He has served as an arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, ICSID and the CAT. He was appointed judge in the General Court of the European Union in 2015, a mandate which was ended by Brexit.

He has returned to practice as KC and as arbitrator, specialising in sport, public law, fundamental rights and competition.   

Publications

Numerous articles on Competition Law, including an annual survey of EC

Competition Law developments in the Oxford Yearbook of European Law,

1981 -

Competition Structures for the 21st Century, Fordham Institute 1997

Current Goals of EC Competition Law, Robert Schuman Centre Annual

Conference on European Competition Law 1997

Regulating Deregulation: Achieving and Safeguarding Conditions for

Fair and Efficient Competition in the Telecommunications Industry: To

Whom should the Task be Entrusted?, Robert Schuman Centre Annual

Conference on European Competition Law 1998

Modernisation of EC Competition Law, Fordham Institute 1999

Articles on Trade Law, especially rules of origin and dumping in the

European Law Review, in EC Trade Law and the US, and in Community

Customs Law in 1998 Bar Practitioners' Handbook

Articles on pharmaceuticals, especially Pharmaceuticals: Test Bed for

European Themes on Trademarks and Free Movement of Goods

Chapters on the European Courts' practice and rules, in European

Courts Practice and Precedents, 1997, Sweet & Maxwell

"The use of comparitive law in A & Others v National Blood Authority"

, chapter in Comparitive Law Before the Courts (British Institute

of International and Comparitive Law 2004)(co-author)

Appointments

Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow

Arbitrator: International Chamber of Commerce

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes