Dr. David Parratt

Email: d.r.parratt@dundee.ac.uk

Qualifications

LL.B (Hons) University of Aberdeen.

Ph.D., University of Edinburgh.

DipLP, University of Aberdeen.

Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (DipICArb).

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. (FRSA).

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSAScot).

Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (FSALS).

Council Member of The Stair Society, Edinburgh.

Member of the Society of Legal Scholars.

Member of the Arbitration and Mediation Panels, London Court of International Arbitration.

Member the Arbitration and Mediation Panels, www.clerksroom.com.

Member (Supporting) London Maritime Arbitration Association.

Member of the LCIA's Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG).

CEDR Accredited Mediator.

Biography

Following undergraduate studies and the Diploma in Legal Practice in the University of Aberdeen, David qualified as a solicitor with a large Glasgow based firm. He worked as a solicitor thereafter and at the same time studied part-time for a PhD which was awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 2004. (The Development and Use of Written Pleadings in Scots Civil Procedure) In 1998 he commenced his devilling at the Scottish Bar and was admitted Advocate in 1999. He has been at the Bar since and has appeared before the High Court of Justiciary, Outer and Inner House of the Court of Session, Sheriff Court and Sheriff Principal, the Scottish Land Court and the Scottish Lands Tribunal. He is a member of Terra Firma Chambers, Parliament House, Edinburgh EH1 1RF.

In 2007/8 he completed the Post Graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, (DipICArb) run by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators at Keble College, University of Oxford. He has a continuing interest in Dispute Resolution in the International Context having completed CEDR's Summer School in Barcelona in 2007. He also enjoys Higher Rights of Audience before the Commercial Court of the International Finance Centre (DIFC) and has rights of audience before the Qatar Financial Centre Civil and Commercial Court, Doha, Qatar.

He is qualified as an Advocate in Scotland and a Barrister in England and Wales.

Teaching

Tutor, Department of Private Law, University of Edinburgh, 1996 - 1998 (Introduction to Scots Law and The Law of Contract in Scotland)

Tutor, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh, 1996 - 1998 (Jurisprudence)

Honorary Lecturer in the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy, (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Dundee (2007)

Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law, University of Dundee (2008 -)

External Examiner in School of Law, University of Aberdeen. (2007 -)

Training Intrant Advocates (Devils) on Devils' Assessment Courses (2006-8)

Research

Dr. Parratt's main research interests are in the areas of civil procedure, comparative law, international commercial arbitration, energy law and carbon capture and storage, compliance and Scottish legal history.

Selected Publications

• Book Review, S. Bennett, "Personal Injury Damages" (4th Ed. 2005) 2005 S.L.T. (News) 132).
• "The Heritors of Kingsbarns against Rev James Beatson: An Example of Eighteenth Century Written Pleading" in Miscellany Five (ed. HL MacQueen) (Stair Society, Vol. 52) 2006 at 133-144.
• "Written Informations and the Start of Written Pleadings" (Abstract of paper to Scottish Legal History Group) 2006 27 Journal of Legal History (1) 95 at 98-99.
• "The Development and Use of Written Pleadings in Scots Civil Procedure" (Stair Society, Vol. 48) 2007.
• "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed..." Civil Dispute Resolution in Scotland - A Continuing Story in: "Judicial Case Management and Efficiency in Civil Litigation" (ed. Prof C. H. Van Rhee, University of Maastricht) (Intersentia Antwerp - Oxford - Portland, 2008) (Volume 70 in the Ius Commune Europaeum Series), 163- 179.
• "Tales of the Unexpected: Procedural Changes and Their (Unintended) Consequences" in (ed.) Prof. Celia Wasserstein Fassberg, World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists Conference Papers (Forthcoming 2008).
• (with Emeritus Professor Ed. Miller) The Pleadings of Sir George Mackenzie: Furiosity and Idiocy in Seventeenth Century Scotland, The Journal of the History of Psychiatry Vol 19, No. 74 (June 2008).
• (with A. Stewart Q.C.,) The Faculty of Advocates Minute Book Volume IV Stair Society Vol. 53 (2008).