John Campbell

Town & Country Planning Energy Law Administrative & Public Law Professional negligence ADR Public Inquiries Town & Country Planning & Environment Applications Policy writing Parties’ written cases Presentations to Committees Appeals and Reviews, Public and other Inquiries Windfarms, hydro, biomass, waste and all renewable energy matters Judicial Reviews and Administrative Law particularly in Planning and Environmental issues Local Plans and Examinations in Public Planning Agreements Historic Buildings and Heritage questions National Parks EU Habitats and Birds Regulations, Environmental Law and related matters Property Compulsory Purchase and Valuations Lands Tribunal – valuation issues, rent reviews Property and Construction disputes Arbitrations, including fishing and farming disputes Negligence A number of cases involving solicitors’ surveyors’ and accountants’ negligence APPOINTMENTS Member of the Scottish Bar since 1981, QC Scotland since 1998 Member, Dispute Review Board, Mersey Gateway Crossing 2015 Hon RIAS (Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) FCIArb (Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators) until 2021 LECTURES & SEMINARS

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 INFORMATION

John 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.