Trinity Chambers
Barristers
John Campbell
- Phone0191 232 1927
- Email[email protected]
Career
Called 1981, Silk 1998
Position
Regularly gives talks on Planning law and Arbitration to solicitors, local authority staff, students, clients and others and has written a number of articles on Listed Buildings and Built and Natural Heritage issues.
EDUCATION LLB Edinburgh 1972 ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONJohn Campbell Q.C. graduated from Edinburgh University in 1972, and worked as a solicitor in Scotland until 1978. He was appointed as an Assistant Director of Legal Aid in Hong Kong where he worked in a range of public service legal jobs until appointed a Magistrate in 1980. He returned to Scotland in 1981.He passed Advocate that year, was called to Lincolns Inn in 1990, and took silk in 1998. He was a member of 40 King Street Chambers in Manchester throughout the 1990s.
He has worked in Family Law, both claimant and defendant Personal Injury and industrial disease work, and much earlier, in Crime. He has acquired a lot of agricultural experience, particularly for estates, farms and tenants and in landlord and tenant issues, and has worked widely in promoting arbitration and mediation for farmers, and in rent reviews both in Scotland and around the world. He has been a registered Construction Adjudicator and is currently a Member of a DRB.
He has worked in Town and Country Planning since the mid 1990s and has developed that speciality to include Environmental Law. He is particularly active in Renewable Energy work on behalf of communities, NGOs, third parties, developers and councils.
His practice today is mainly in Planning and Environmental Law, property and land law, and agriculture and energy work, and he has a specialised practice in all kinds of ADR work and its promotion. He has carried out about 200 public inquiries and a number of related judicial reviews. Outside the law, he was Chairman of Scotland’s largest Building Preservation Trust until 2020 and is a Trustee of Berwickshire Housing Association, and chairs a University Micro-Computing Research Advisory Board.