Dr. Marian Gilmore QC
Personal information
Address
Telephone (work)
(Home)
(Mobile)
E-mail
Advocates’ Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh, EH1 1RF
0131 226 5071
0131 339 1536
07739 639056
marian.gilmore@advocates.org.uk
Clerking information
Clerk
Address
Telephone
E-mail
Susan Hastie
Hastie Stable, Parliament House, Edinburgh, EH1 1RF
0131 260 5654
susan.hastie@advocates.org.uk
Education/Qualifications
St. Paul`s Girls` School (Academic Scholarship)
Modern Language Scholarship to University of Paris: Diplome de la litterature et de la
civilisation francaises
Edinburgh University: LL.B(Hons.), Forensic Prize, Vans Dunlop Scholarship
University of Aix-Marseille: Diplome d`etudes superieures (= LL.M), Doctorat de
l`Universite (= Ph.D)
Career at the Scottish Bar
Admitted Advocate 1992
Queen’s Counsel: 2008
Legal Member, Mental Health Tribunal Scotland (since 2004)
Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (since 2006)
Areas of interest: clinical negligence, aviation, mental health, occupational stress, personal
injuries (especially serious head injuries and psychiatric disorders), fatal accident inquiries,
commercial law
Counsel in the following House of Lords Appeals (concerning interpretation of international
Conventions and foreign law, and psychiatric injury):
Abnett v. British Airways Ltd; Sidhu v. British Airways Ltd; King v. Bristow Helicopters Ltd;
Morris v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Other significant cases:
Steinberg v. Dr. Kennedy
Coleridge v. Miller Construction
Williams v. Farne Salmon and Trout
Cross v. HIE and WIE
Duff v. East Dunbartonshire Council and Ors.
Shaher v. BAe Flying College Ltd.
Fatal Accident Inquiries: aviation; medical
Additional training and experience:
Diploma in Trial Advocacy Skills
Scholarship to Harvard Law School, and attachment to neurology and psychiatry
departments, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Summer vacation attachment to major commercial law firm, New York
Summer vacation travelling fellowship: attachment to law firm specialising in intellectual
property law, New York
Summer vacation attachment to French Bar
Committee membership:
Legal Education and Admission Committee
Strategy Committee
Diploma in Legal Practice National Co-ordinating Committee
POSITIONS FORMERLY HELD IN INDUSTRY (Last first)
Senior Legal Counsel and Company Secretary: GlaxoSmithKline: commercial law (including
patents, trademarks, passing off), negotiation of agreements (including acquisitions,
licensing, distributorship), litigation, all aspects of the law relating to pharmaceuticals
Legal Adviser: Westland Aircraft Ltd.: aviation law, commercial law, litigation, negotiation of
all agreements including aircraft manufacturing joint collaboration agreements with British
and foreign Governments. WAL also owned a number of other aviation and engineering
concerns (e.g. British Hovercraft Corporation)
Legal Adviser: Societe Generale (U.K Head Office, London, of French merchant bank):
commercial and banking law, litigation, French law
FORMER PART-TIME POSTS/ COMMITTEES
Seconded to “Unidroit” (Rome): developing rules governing international commercial
arbitration
Member: United Nations Women’s Committee
Head of Aircraft Industry EC Law Secretariat
Part-time University Lecturer: Commercial Law; European Commercial Law
Editor: "Contact" (British Armed Forces magazine)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bar trainee (1990/91) Simpson and Marwick W.S., Edinburgh
Instructor on advocacy courses
Preparation of Faculty of Advocates’ response to Scottish Government’s consultation paper
on revision of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment)(Scotland) Act 2003
Preparation of Scottish Law Commission’s response to English Law Commission`s
consultation paper on damages for wrongful death
Preparation of Edinburgh University’s response to English Law Commission’s consultation
paper on financial provisions on divorce
Translation of ECHR judgments for publication by W. Green
Married to a former mechanical and aeronautical engineering officer in the British Army
Approximately 15 years` experience of life with the British Forces
Member: Hon. Soc. Middle Temple