Expertise

Douglas is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in the Glasgow office. He is a Solicitor Advocate (with extended rights of audience) and has extensive experience of all manner of commercial disputes before courts and tribunals of all levels in Scotland.

Douglas has particular expertise in insolvency disputes, having acting in connection with some of the largest and highest profile insolvencies in Scotland, including several with significant cross-border elements.

Douglas also has significant experience of disputes in the transport and renewables sectors and of contract, shareholder and boardroom disputes more generally. 

Public procurement disputes also forms a particularly noteworthy part of Douglas's practice, having pursued a large number of such challenges on behalf of variousa wide range of businesses in a wide ranger of sectors, including the first challenge to be considered by the Supreme Court under the Scottish Regulations.

Experience include:

• Joint Administrators of Heritable Bank plc: proceedings against the Winding-Up Board of Landsbanki Islands HF, culminating in a Supreme Court appeal relative to the impact of a foreign determination of a claim in an insolvency upon the ability to claim set-off.
• CVR Global LLP: representing the trustee in bankruptcy of Gregory King, the former director of the Heather Capital hedge fund in relation to the identification and recovery of assets across multiple jurisdictions following an alleged multi-million-pound fraud.
• Healthcare at Home Limited: a major public procurement challenge, understood to be the first case under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations to be considered by the UK Supreme Court.
• Shetland Line (1984) Limited v. Scottish Ministers:  a challenge of the procurement process relative to the provision of ferry services to the Northern Isles.
• Glasgow Prestwick Airport: acting in connection with two separate Public Inquiries relative to windfarm developments in the vicinity of Glasgow Prestwick Airport, considered to have an impact on the performance of their radar.
• Renewables Company: pursuing a judicial review against Crown Estate Scotland relative to the Scotwind auction process in connection with offshore wind projects in Scotland