Charities lawyer Eccles joins BKF

Legal firm BKF (Bannatyne Kirkwood France) has announced the appointment of Alan Eccles to the firm.

Mr Eccles, previously a partner at Brodies, works in three main areas: charities, private client, and parliamentary matters. Much of his practice involves advising on charity law, incuding setting up new charities and administering grant-giving foundations.

In private client, he is the author of the Scotland chapter in the textbook International Succession, and often also advises on incapacity law, having acted in some of the leading Scottish cases on incapacity law and estate and succession planning.

His experience advising on parliamentary matters also relates to charities and charitable activities, having acted in relation to the Burrell Collection (Lending and Borrowing) (Scotland) Act 2014 and the Hutchesons’ Hospital Transfer and Dissolution (Scotland) Act 2019.

He is a part-time lecturer at University of Strathclyde.