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Roddy McIlvride
Year of Call: 2005
Devil Masters: Alan WD McLean, Lorenzo Alonzi
Qualifications: LLB (Hons.)
Biography:
Since being called to the bar, Roddy McIlvride has been instructed in a wide range of commercial and commercial property matters. He had previously been head of litigation at a large Glasgow firm of solicitors, and between 1986 and 2004 he was also a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner. As a solicitor advocate between 1997 and 2004, Roddy appeared regularly in the Court of Session in both the Outer House and the Inner House. Reported Inner House decisions in cases in which he appeared as a solicitor advocate included Scottish Enterprise v Archibald Russel of Denny Ltd. 2002 SLT 519; Project Fishing International v Cepo Ltd. 2002 SC 534; Wilson & Ors.v The Keeper of the Registers & Ors. 2000 SLT 267; and Fleming’s Tr.v Fleming 2000 SC 206.
In addition to appearing in the Court of Session and the Sheriff Court, he has represented clients before the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, employment tribunals, professional disciplinary tribunals and Licensing Committees, and in arbitrations, adjudications and planning inquiries. Roddy was admitted to temporary membership of the California Bar when representing corporate clients in litigation in the Federal Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco.
He is a former Convenor of the Law Society of Scotland solicitor advocate (civil) training and assessment course and has lectured at conferences organised by the Law Society of Scotland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Roddy has also conducted training seminars for the staff of the Accountant in Bankruptcy.
Recent Cases:
- Ben Cleuch Estates Ltd. v Scottish Enterprise [2008] CSIH 1 (validity of break notice in commercial lease)
- Preferred Mortgages Ltd. v Shanks & Ors. [2008] CSOH 23 (whether joint and several liability if professional negligence by surveyor and solicitor in lending transaction)
- Holmehill Ltd. v The Scottish Ministers 2006 SLT (Sh. Ct.) 79 (registration of community interest in land)
- Finlayson’s Guardian v Scottish Rig Repairers 2006 SLT 329 (exercise of the court’s dispensing power)
- The Royal Bank of Scotland plc v Wilson 2004 SC 153 (validity of security granted by wife where husband’s business borrowing secured)
contact details
Tel (Mobile): 07739 638956
Tel (Home): 0141 204 3766
Tel (Clerk): 0131 260 5830
Fax (Clerk): 0131 225 3642
Email: roddy.mcilvride@terrafirmachambers.com
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