Dr David Bartos DBE

David Bartos has extensive advocacy experience in the area of property, commercial and trust, succession and executry litigation.
David's experience in and knowledge of property litigation is extensive. It includes all aspects of landlord and tenant disputes (including rent review), land registration, access and other servitude and real burden rights, boundary, and missives disputes. He has acted as a arbitral-tribunal appointed expert in a commercial lease dispute.

Since April 2020 David has been acting as a Commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission. He has been the lead Commissioner in the Commission’s project on the termination of leases and has also contributed to the Commission’s joint report with the Law Commission of England and Wales on automated vehicles which was published in January 2022.

David is also co-author of the leading work on Scottish arbitration, Dundas & Bartos on The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (two editions).