Andrew F Stewart Q.C.

andrewstewart@arnotmanderson.co.uk

Summary of Practice

Andrew is currently serving as an Advocate Depute.

He is editor of Session Cases, the official series of Scottish Law reports and a part-time visiting lecturer at the at the Universite de Nancy 2, France.

He was Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates from 2003 to 2009, and Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry and its successor departments from 2000 to 2009.

Andrew had a broad-ranging junior practice with an emphasis on commercial, company, insolvency, property and administrative law.

He is experienced in advising on all aspects of property law, from planning matters through to leases, title and conveyancing issues, and also on trusts and succession.

His experience in administrative law includes licensing and planning matters in addition to being regularly instructed by the Home Office in immigration judicial reviews.

Each year from 2000 to 2009 he was recommended in the Legal 500 as a commercial junior eg

"Andrew Stewart....is a commercially minded lawyer, with a solid practice which includes insolvency and directors'  disqualification." (2009 Edition)

Cases, trials, inquiries

1. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Coakley [2006] CSIH 40;  2007 SC 1 (directors disqualification)

2. Board of Management of Aberdeen College v Youngson  [2005] CSOH 31; 2005 1 SC 335 (validity of a non domino disposition where granter and grantee same person)

3. Ashley Bell v East Renfrewshire Council [2005] CSOH 159; [2006] CSOH9; [2006] CSIH 33; 2006 SLT 104 (planning appeal)

4. HA v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] CSIH 65 (principles upon which appeal court may interfere with decision of immigration judge on credibility)

Publications

Editor, Session Cases, since 2001
Co-Annotator of legislation in Scottish Planning Encyclopaedia and Scottish Local Government Encyclopaedia

Appointments

Advocate Depute from 2009
Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates 2003 to 2009
Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry and its successor departments 2000 to 2009
Member of Judicial Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1997-2001; 2002-2006