James Murphie

Year Of Call

2008

Devil Masters

Christian D Marney, James Reilly

Qualifications

LL.B, University of Dundee; Postgraduate Diploma in Petroleum Law, University of Dundee

Biography

Before coming to the Bar, James had acquired eight years practising experience as a litigation solicitor in Perth and Dundee.  He is also an experienced academic lawyer.  James therefore brings to the role of advocate a combination of practitioner skills and depth of knowledge in his specialist fields, which are: Employment Law (including discrimination and health & safety), European Community Law and Civil Liberties / Human Rights.  He also has experience of personal injury litigation and criminal defence work.

Publications

• The Employer's Right to Rewrite the Contract? Juridical Review 2011, Issue 4, 331-347
• A critical analysis of the UK's implementation of the Agency Workers Directive (2008/104/EC), Paper presented at the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference, Downing College, University of Cambridge, September 2011
• Road Traffic Accidents, chapter 22 in Thomson J (ed.) Delict, W. Green (under the auspices of the Scottish Universities Law Institute), 2010
• Employers' Right to Rewrite the Contract, Paper presented at the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference, University of Southampton, September 2010
• Scottish Update to Employment Law and Health & Safety chapters of the Architects Legal Handbook, 9th ed., Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, 2010
• Mum's Deportation may be illegal, Evening Telegraph and Post, 14 October 2009
• In Defence of the Employer's Defence? - Case C - 127/05 Commission v UK, Scottish Law Gazette, vol.75 No.6, 208 2007
• BBC Radio Scotland Newsround, legal opinion broadcast during item on dropping of criminal proceedings against G8 protestors, September 2005
• Ninety Minutes, Interview broadcast on Radio Scotland regarding potential legal challenges to SFA rules, April 2004
• Redundancy claims at Dens Park, Interview with Grampian TV for North Tonight, 14 January 2004
• Book Review, 'Guide des aides d'état en droit communautaire' Journal of Common Market Studies, vol.38 no.1, March 2000
• The Race Relations Act, Item on Lawful Business, Radio Scotland, March 1998

Appointments

Senior Lecturer in Law (part-time), University of Abertay Dundee (current)
Professeur Invité, Université d'Orléans, France 2003

Further Information

French and German