Two appointed to Scottish Law Commission

Advocate David Bartos and legal academic Dr Gillian Black have been appointed as commissioners of the Scottish Law Commission.

Mr Bartos, who will serve full time for five years from 20 April 2020, has a wealth of practical experience in commercial property litigation together with a deep knowledge of property and contract law. His interests include the impact of new technologies on the law, including cryptocurrencies. He is co-author of the sixth edition of Bartos and Meston on the Succession (Scotland) Act, and has co-authored two editions of Dundas and Bartos on the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010.

He has practised as an advocate since 1993, and been a chair of the Housing & Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland since 2011, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2007. 

Dr Black, who will be a part time commissioner for five years from 22 April 2020, is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh, with teaching and research interests principally in family law, contract law and privacy. She also has a research interest in heraldry, and has published widely across these fields. 

Before joining Edinburgh Law School in 2005, she qualified as a solicitor in 2002 with Shepherd & Wedderburn, working in their Commercial Contracts division, and then spent 18 months as a teaching assistant in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow.  She completed her PhD on publicity rights in Scots law in 2009.