Criminal law conference

Alan has been a Senior Associate with MBS Solicitors since the firm’s establishment in August 2010. He has practised as a solicitor since qualifying in 2006. His primary areas of practise are family & child law, criminal law, reparation law.

He has a particular interest in the area of Children’s Referrals. He is regularly appointed to act mostly for juveniles and parents for hearings at the Children’s Panels to Children’s Referral Proofs at the Sheriff Court.

He has also written articles for the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. Alan is also regularly instructed in respect of Panel Appeals at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and to the Sheriff Appeal Court. He regularly instructs and works closely with Counsel.

In addition, he is regularly instructed in Permanence and Adoption actions in the Sheriff Court and in the Court of Session.

Alan has also acted in cases ranging from Special Reasons/Exceptional Hardship Proofs in the Justice of the Peace Court, to Summary Trials in the Sheriff Court, right through to more complex Sheriff and Jury trials – all in his own right.

Alan is also experienced in reparation law and regularly assists clients to obtain compensation for various types of personal injury cases.

Alan maintains a keen interest in parliamentary and constitutional affairs and has a more general interest in regulation of the legal profession.

He has previously tutored in delict at both the University of Edinburgh and Napier University since 2004. He is committed to mentoring and is very passionate about learning, training and ongoing professional development.

He is commended for being approachable and having a firm sense of commitment to clients. Given his breadth of experience in litigation matters, he is effective and persuasive in his written and oral advocacy.

Basil is a digital forensics consultant, owner of Strathclyde Forensics and the Manager of The Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier University.
 
He has diverse business experience in the UK and Greece, and has worked with organisations like IBM, Abbey National, Glasgow University, HM Government and Edinburgh Napier University.

Since 2009 he has been running his own business, Strathclyde Forensics, providing Expert Witness and Digital Forensics services, businesses and individuals, but mainly to the legal profession. He has been involved in several high-profile cases and has been providing customised CPD training to solicitors and other legal professionals in Digital Evidence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity.

Through his position at The Cyber Academy he has provided training to the Chinese Government, including the Ministry of Industry and IT, and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, as well as most branches of the Scottish Government on Incident Response and Cyber Resilience.

Basil is a regular speaker to universities (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh Napier, UWS, Robert Gordon, SAN, American College of Greece) and conferences in the UK and abroad (Poland, Romania, Greece, Germany) and he has organised this year’s Big Data in Cyber Security Conference, at Napier University which attracted an audience of 250 and speakers from around the world, including the ITU and the FBI.

In the last year he has participated in several events of The Law Society of Scotland, has been working (and presenting) with INTERPOL’s Digital Forensics Expert’s Group, and has had over 20 awareness engagements that also include SYLA (Scottish Young Lawyer’s Association) and SPA (Scottish Paralegal Association).

Stuart Munro is the head of the Criminal Litigation & Inquiries Practice Area Unit. A criminal lawyer of over twenty five years’ standing, he also has considerable experience in child protection cases (including the most serious allegation of criminal behaviour by and towards children) and civil litigation (particularly in the representation of professionals in partnership and regulatory cases).  

Ian was admitted as a solicitor in 1993, and granted extended rights of audience in the High Court of Justiciary in 2005. He appears regularly in the High Court. He served on the Council of the Law Society of Scotland between 2006 and 2012. Ian was appointed to the Parole Board for Scotland in 2014, and took up the role of Legal Vice-Chair of the Board in 2017. He also sits as a legal convenor of Mental Health Tribunals.

Colin was appointed as Chief Executive of the Parole Board for Scotland in April 2016 and has led on several initiatives to modernise and improve the effectiveness of the Board’s administration and to increase its public profile including streamlining processes, increasing the use of technology and supporting the establishment of the Board’s Research Group. Prior to his appointment Colin was the Unit Head for Support and Wellbeing in the Learning Directorate of the Scottish Government. Colin is a qualified HR professional with extensive experience of project management and implementing change.