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Year of Call: 1999

Areas of Practice:
- Commercial
- Employment & Industrial Relations

- Landlord & Tenant

 

Douglas Fairley

After qualifying as a solicitor in 1992, Douglas worked for six years with a large commercial firm in Glasgow and Edinburgh and, during 1997 and 1998 was involved in running that firm's Employment Law Unit.

Since calling in 1999 he has specialised in employment and commercial work. He has appeared regularly before Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal as well as the Outer and Inner Houses of the Court of Session. He has also appeared in the House of Lords.

Notable cases in which he has been involved include:

  • Osborne v BBC 2000  SC 29 (interdict)
  • Fullarton Computer Industries Limited v Central Arbitration Committee [2001] IRLR 752 (trade union recognition)
  • Magnohard v UKAEA 2004 SC 247 (judicial review)
  • Anderson v Jarvis Hotels EATS / 0059 / 05 (employment / working time)
  • W S Karoulias v The Drambuie Liqueur Company Ltd 2005 SLT 813 (distribution agreements)
  • Wm Collins v CGU Insurance plc 2006 SC 674 (commercial leases)
  • Hynd v Armstrong & Others 2007 SLT 299 (TUPE)
  • Hamilton v Allied Domecq 2007 SLT 697 (misrepresentation)
  • Morrish v nlt Group Limited 2007 SC 805 (employment contracts / notice)
  • Glasgow Aiport v Kirkman and Bradford 2007 SC 742 (professional negligence)
  • Assembly Solutions v Mitchell [2007] SCOH 195 (sale and purchase agreements)
  • Blacha v Bank of Scotland [2008] CSOH 173 (banking)
  • Mackays Stores v Topward Limited [2008] CSOH (commercial contracts)
  • Duncan v American Express [2009] CSIH 1 (banking)
  • J S Swan (Printing) Limited v Kall Kwik UK Limited [2009] CSOH 99 (jurisdiction / franchise agreements)

He has sat as an Employment Judge in both Scotland and England and between March 2010 and May 2011 was a full-time Employment Judge in the Edinburgh Office of the Employment Tribunals.

Since returning to practice on 30 May 2011 he has been a full-time Advocate Depute.

He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, a contributor to Court of Session Practice (Tottel), and co-author of Contempt of Court in Scotland (CLT).

 

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