MR DAVID LORIMER

MR DAVID LORIMER
MR DAVID LORIMER
MR DAVID LORIMER

BSc LLB LLM

Research PG

About
Office Address

Currently working from home due to Covid-19. Contact by Email per above.

School/Department
School of Law

Biography

An engineer turned law student, Mr Lorimer writes regularly on innovative legal insights stemming from his quantitative approach to jurisprudence and legal analysis. (see https://www.scottishlegal.com/category/news/search/david+lorimer and https://www.abdn.ac.uk/law/blog/posts-by/david-lorimer/). David offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the increasingly technical challenges of legal analysis and reform. His current PhD research work critically addresses complainer protections in sexual offences by positively challenging the accepted logic of key areas of procedure, evidence, and legislation as implemented in Scottish courtrooms and other jurisdictions.

Prior to a career change in order to 'seek new horizons', he was an established consulting engineer with almost 30 years experience in the Oil and Gas industry. His professional CV includes: a BSc in Engineering Science from Aberdeen University in 1980: published works on design, development and implementation of innovative multifaceted systems, including Horizontal Subsea Tree Design and Installation (OTC Paper 8252, Houston, May 1996) and Subsea Wirelining (Offshore Magazine, May 1991): author of in-house guidelines on Quantitative Risk Assessment for Subsea Installations and Safety Case submissions for Texaco North Sea UK Ltd, and Subsea Hydrate Mitigation, also for Texaco North Sea: author of a distance learning MSc course module in Subsea Engineering for Robert Gordons University: expert witness in subsea engineering patent litigation for McGrigors, Edinburgh (now Pinsent Masons), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London and Arnold White and Durkee, Houston. David has undertaken many CPD courses including several project management courses and a module on Managing Design with the Open University. He retired from his engineering consultancy business in 2012.

Qualifications

  • BSc Engineering Science 
    1980 - University of Aberdeen 
  • LLB Scots Law 
    2015 - University of Dundee 
  • LLM by Research: Corroboration in Scots Law 
    2016 - University of Aberdeen 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Centre for Scots Law

External Memberships

Member of JUSTICE

Previously Graduate Member of IMechE and SPE

Research

Research Overview

Evidence and Procedure, Scots Criminal Law, comparative criminal and civil procedures, protecting complainers in sexual offences, jury research, options for legal development in these areas.

Current Research

Protecting Complainers in Sexual Offences: Next Steps for Scotland

Knowledge Exchange

Provided submissions and responses to the Gillen Review on options for non-jury trials in rape cases. Regular contributor to the Scottish Legal News. Recently featured in a newspaper article on the Victims Witnesses and Justice Reform Bill. Submitted consultation input on the Scottish Jury Research project. Submitted proposal on jury configuration to SPICe.

Collaborations

Funding and Grants

Elphinstone PhD Scholarship

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Previously authored a distance learning MSc module in oil and gas engineering. More recently conducted criminal law tutorials at Aberdeen University, providing structured handouts on key issues. David has provided tuition for over ten years in non-legal subjects.