Mr Gary Allan QC graduated from The University of Aberdeen in 1980 with an LLB (Hons). He was called to the Bar in 1994 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 2007. Between 2007 and 2011 Mr Allan QC served as Senior Advocate Depute for the Crown Counsel.
Mr Allan QC specialises in white collar, regulatory and business and financial crime. He is renown for his expertise in handling complex, sensitive and high profile cases
As a retired Partner of international law firm Pinsent Masons and former Head of Pinsent Masons’ Aberdeen office, Mr Roger Connon has extensive expertise in the corporate and corporate finance sectors, including work on acquisitions and disposals, private equity and corporate reorganisations.
The 2015 edition of the Legal 500 emphasises his experience in the oil and gas sector. Mr Connon has acted for both UK and foreign service companies and as well as small independent E&P companies, acquiring, securitising and selling UKCS oil and gas licence assets.
Sheriff Annella Cowan completed her LLB (Hons) at The University of Edinburgh and practiced as a Solicitor prior to calling at the Bar in 1987. She was appointed Sheriff of Grampian and the Highland and Islands at Aberdeen in 1997. Sheriff Cowan became Senior Sheriff in 2008.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond was the Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council before his appointment as Principle and Vice Chancellor of The University of Aberdeen on 1 April 2010.
He graduated in 1975 with a BSc (Hons) in Economics and in 1976 with a MSc in Statistics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Sir Diamond then received his PhD in Statistics from The University of St Andrews in 1981. He began his academic career at Heriot Watt University in 1979. He then joined the University of Southampton in 1980 where he was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor. At Southampton, Professor Sir Diamond was appointed Dean of Social Sciences in 1997 and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2001.
Professor Sir Diamond was elected to the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 1999. He is currently a Fellow of the British Academy (2005), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009). Professor Sir Diamond also holds honorary degrees from the universities of Cardiff and Glasgow.
More recently, in 2013, Professor Sir Diamond was Knighted for services to social science and higher education and was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen.
Lady Leeona Dorrian was a Senator of the College of Justice from 2005 until her appointment as Lord Justice Clerk in April 2016. She is a graduate of The University of Aberdeen (LLB). She called at the Faculty of Advocates in 1981, where she served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Health and Safety Executive and Commission between 1987 and 1994, as an Advocate Depute between 1988 and 1991, and Standing Junior to the Department of Energy between 1991 and 1994. Lady Dorrian was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1994. Having been appointed Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian is the most senior woman in Scottish legal history.
Professor Roderick Paisley holds the Chair of Scots Law at The University of Aberdeen. After graduating from Aberdeen, with both the LLB (Hons) and Diploma in Legal Practice, Professor Paisley spent a period of time working as a Solicitor in private practice before joining the Law School as a Lecturer.
Professor Paisley specialises in the law of property, conveyancing, succession and trusts. He has written extensively on these subjects and is recognised throughout Scotland as a leading expert on the law of conveyancing generally and the law of servitudes particularly.
Dr David Parratt, a member of the Faculty of Advocates, graduated from The University of Aberdeen in both the LLB (Hons) and Diploma in Legal Practice. Since calling at the Bar in 1999, Dr Parratt has focused primarily on civil work - specialising increasingly in construction, contract and general commercial law and, from an early period, trusts, heritable property and agricultural law.
Dr Parratt has joined 3PB Barristers from Cown Office Chambers in 2019. He is also active in dispute resolution holding the qualification "Chartered Arbitrator", as well as being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Dr Parratt is also accredited as a CEDR Mediator.
When he can find the time, he also enjoys various academic pursuits. Dr Parratt has a number of publications and Scottish Arbitration Handbook was published in 2011. He tutored in private law at The University of Edinburgh from 1996 until 1998. Dr Parratt is also an Honorary Lecturer in dispute resolution at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy at The University of Dundee, an Honorary Research Fellow in international arbitration at The University of Dundee's the School of Law and a Visiting Senior Lecturer in dispute resolution, international arbitration and construction law at The British University in Dubai.
Lord Stephen Woolman was appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice in March 2008. He is a graduate of The University of Aberdeen. Between 1978 and 1987 he was a Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh, where for 3 years he was the Associate Dean of the Law School. In 1987, Lord Woolman was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was Standing Junior Counsel for the Inland Revenue, the Ministry of Defence (Procurement) and the Office of Fair Trading. He took silk in 1998.
From 1999 to 2002, Lord Woolman served as an Advocate Depute. Between 2004 and 2008 he was Keeper of the Advocates Library. Lord Woolman was formerly Chairman of the Scottish Council of Law Reporting, the Bar Mediation Group and the Free Legal Services Unit. He is the author of the leading student textbook on the Scots law of contract and also Deputy Chairman of the Boundary Commission for Scotland.