Mr David MacLeod
Honorary Lecturer
David MacLeod is a Barrister (England & Wales) and an Advocate (a qualified lawyer with rights of audience in the Supreme Courts in Scotland). He is also a Chartered Arbitrator, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Accredited Mediator.
David is a trial lawyer with fifteen years advocacy experience representing the interests' of clients in jury trials.
He advises clients who are contemplating entering into the process of dispute resolution or who find themselves subject to complex, or lengthy litigation.
In particular, he advises clients as to the most effective mechanism to resolve issues in dispute and bring matters to a successful conclusion in a way that preserves and furthers their interests.
Further, when a party is engaged in a dispute, he provides advocacy services in various fora - including the Supreme Courts - representing clients' interests through leading evidence to present their case, cross-examining witnesses and making legal arguments in closing submissions.
David has extensive experience in criminal litigation and is regularly instructed to appear as Counsel in the most serious of criminal cases. He has developed a particular professional interest in financial and economic crime, especially Bribery & Corruption issues as they relate to the global oil and gas industry.
Outside the courtroom David is well known as a lecturer and tutor in advanced advocacy skills and dispute resolution.
He has degrees in Accountancy (B.A), Law (LL.B), and a Masters degree (LLM) in 'International Business Transactions' from the 'Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy' (CEPMLP). He has a post graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration awarded by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, a Diploma in 'Teaching Advocacy Skills' awarded by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, USA, and a post graduate Diploma in 'Legal Practice'.
He won the 'Minerals and Petroleum Educational Scholarship' in 2003 awarded by the 'Petroleum Educational Trust' to study for a Masters' degree in Law at the CEPMLP, where he submitted a Dissertation on the application of the OECD Convention on Bribery & Corruption (awarded with Distinction).
David was appointed by the Senate of the University of Dundee as an Honorary Lecturer, in the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy in 2008, where he lectures regularly and, was appointed as a member of the CEPMLP's Global Faculty in 2009.