Calum Wilson
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Tutor in Civil Court Practice, University of Edinburgh, 2002 - 2006.
MA (Hons) (St Andrews)
Ll.B (Hons) (Edinburgh)
Dip.LP (Edinburgh)
PRACTICE:
Calum has a busy practice and is experienced in a wide variety of cases. He regularly appears in both the Court of Session and Sheriff Court. He came to the Bar as a respected solicitor, having trained and worked at Brodies, and then at McGrigor Donald. His principal fields of practice include:-
- Personal Injury
- Professional and Medical Negligence
- Property Litigation
- Commercial and Contract Litigation
- Intellectual Property Disputes
Calum has an extensive personal injury practice, including employers' liability, occupiers' liability, road traffic accidents and industrial disease cases. He acts on behalf of both pursuers and defenders.
Other areas of practice include professional negligence work (including experience of mediation in both solicitors' and architects negligence cases), property disputes, intellectual property, insolvency, diligence and general commercial and civil litigation.
SELECTED CASES:
- Finlayson v British Steel plc 2003 SLT 903 - Expenses - motion to lodge account late
- Galbraith v First Glasgow (No 1) Ltd 2006 SLT 317 - Expenses - modification
- Delaney v Beechwood Nurseries Ltd 2004 Rep L.R. - Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Kenneil v Kenneil (No 2) 2006 GWD 22-488 - Action of Division and Sale - distribution of proceeds
PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS:
Former contributor: International Intellectual Property Litigation, Sweet & Maxwell.
Calum is involved with the Faculty of Advocates' Devil's foundation course lecturing on written pleadings. He has also lectured on various Central Law Training courses on advocacy skills and written pleadings.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- Treasurer, Faculty of Advocates' Personal Injuries' Law Group
- Clerk to the Faculty of Advocates' Training and Admissions Committee