Prof Margaret Ross

Email: m.l.ross@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1224 272421
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Room: C38, Taylor Building

Professor

LLB (Aberd), Solicitor, NP

Professor Margaret Ross is currently Head of the School of Law.
She graduated LLB Hons from Aberdeen in 1979 and qualified as a solicitor in 1981. She has been on the staff of the university as a tutor since 1980 and was appointed to her present post in 1992. She was Deputy Head of the Law School from 2000 to 2003 and is a member of both the University Senate and the University Court. She was appointed Professor of Law in August 2009.

She links her research interests in evidence, procedures and mediation with family law and mental health contexts, and is a regular contributor to CPD events for lawyers and other professionals working in these areas. She is the author of the revised edition of the leading text on the law of evidence in Scotland. Her publications include journal articles and book chapters about evidence, alternative dispute resolution, and the procedures of courts and professional bodies.

She is an independent reporter for the court in adoption applications, chair of Family Mediation Grampian, a former Vice Chair of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, and a past chair of Grampian Research Ethics Committee.

Mrs Ross is interested in supervising research students working in the following areas: alternative dispute resolution, civil procedure, evidence and mental health law.

• (Ross M.), Commercial Actions and Jackson v Hughs Dowdall, Edinburgh Law Review 2009.
  Forthcoming
• (Ross M.& Chalmers J, Walker & Walker), The Law of Evidence in Scotland 3rd Edn , pp.579, Tottel Publishing, 2009. , ISBN: 978 1 84592 165 1
• (Ross M. Bleichner S & Reid L), Tribunal Training in Scotland, pp.66, Scottish Government, Courts and Constitution Analytical Team Justice Analytical Services, 2009. , ISBN: 978 0 559 7383
• (Ross M. & Sharp L), The Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004, Dundee University Press, pp.83, 2008. , ISBN: 978 1 84586 045 5

• (Ross M.), Dispute Management and Resolution, in Oil and Gas Law - Current Practice and Emerging Trends, pp.431-460, DUP, 2007. Greg Gordon and John Paterson, eds., ISBN: 9781845860332
• (Ross M.), MHTs: take another look, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 51(3), pp.20-22, 2006.
• (Ross M.), The Impact of Mental Disorder, Part 8 (5 chapters) Mental Health, Incapacity and the Law in Scotland (Main author Patrick, Tottel Publishing), 2006.
• (Ross M.), Mediation in Scotland: an Elusive Opportunity - Global Trends in Mediation 2006. 2nd Ed Alexander, Kluwer Law International
• (Ross M.), Keep the eye on the ball, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 49(11), pp.36-37, 2004.
• (Ross M.), Mediating in the Shadow of Civil Procedural Law in Scotland: Away from 'Nursing Wrath' towards Nurturing Choice , Resolution and Resilience in new York Proceedings of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Conference, 2004.
• (Ross M.), Mediation in Scotland: an Eluded Opportunity, Global Trends in Mediation, pp.277-300, 2003.
• (Ross M.), The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: A long and winding road, Edinburgh Law Review, 7(2), pp.226-233, 2003.
• (Ross M.), Mediation in Scotland: an Eluded Opportunity, Studies in UK Law: United Kingdom Comparative Law Series, 21, pp.179-196, 2002. John Bell ed.
• (Ross M.), The Legal Framework of Caring, Reconceptualising Work with Carers, pp.177-194, 2002. Kirsten Stalker ed.
• (Ross M.), Adoption in the 21st Century: Still image against a moving picture, Family Dynamics: Contemporary Issues in Family Law, pp.105-128, 2001. Jane Scoular ed.

• (Ross M.), Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland, pp.550 + c, 2000. 2nd ed.
• (Ross M.), Procedures for complaint against counsel in the United Kingdom: internal purification versus external vindication?, Civil Justice Quarterly, 19(Oct), pp.405-431, 2000. With Y Enoch.
• (Ross M.), Reforms in family proceedings in the sheriff court: Raising conflicts in civil justice?, Contemporary Issues in Law, 3(1), pp.1-16, 1998.
• (Ross M.), Resolution of Commercial Disputes, Scots Commercial Law, pp.1-25, 1997. ADM Forte ed.
• (Ross M.), Attitudes to Sexual Orientation in Adoption Law: T Petitioner, Edinburgh Law Review, 1(3), pp.370-381, 1997.
• (Ross M.), Financial provision on divorce: Shifting sands and murky waters, Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly, 2(2), pp.123-137, 1997.
• (Ross M.), Complaints against solicitors: A comparative study of procedures in Scotland, England & Wales and Northern Ireland, Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly, 1(2-4), pp.145-58, 216-23, 331-39, 1996. With Y Enoch.