Areas of specialisation

Education, employment and property. Practises in all areas of education and employment law. Represents individuals, employers, local authorities, schools, and charities. Particular experience in cases of discrimination (race, religion, sex (including equal pay), and disability), school admissions, school exclusions, special educational needs, educational negligence, and whistle-blowing. His property practice is principally concerned with neighbour-disputes (e.g. boundaries, easements and claims of adverse possession).

Synopsis - General

Lachlan’s years of trial advocacy and litigation experience have not been confined to employment, education, and neighbour disputes. Other areas of his practice have included consumer law, personal injury and landlord & tenant, and this range has served as a firm foundation to his civil practice, and has equipped him equally in the skills of trial advocacy, which he relishes, and the more jurisprudential advocacy before the Administrative/High Court.

Lachlan is now best known for his expertise and experience in the fields of education and employment. These complementary fields demand scrutiny and presentation of, often complex, issues of fact, within a legislative framework which comprises UK statute, European and Human Rights law. He is also a trained mediator, and his skills in, and support for, this alternative approach to dispute resolution, has often proved beneficial in his employment and neighbour-dispute cases.

For a fuller account of Lachlan’s experience within the three areas of specialisation, please follow the links to his specialist profiles.

Languages

Working French, Basic Arabic.

Interests

Politics, philosophy, arts (especially theatre), horses, shooting (target rifle), heritage.