Alison M Wild

Year Of Call

2008

Devil Masters

Kate Dowdalls, Roddy Dunlop QC, Thomas Ross

Biography

Prior to calling to the Bar, Alison was a solicitor in private practice for 16 years, specialising in family law.

Between 1991 and 2001 she was regularly involved in cases in the Court of Session and Sheriff Courts in all aspects of family matters. In 1998 she was accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a CALM mediator and in 1999 as a family law specialist. She tutored in family law at Edinburgh University for two years until 2001.

From 2001 she worked in the Cayman Islands where she was admitted to the Cayman Islands Bar. She established a family law practice there and appeared frequently in the Grand Court.

On her return to Scotland in 2003 Alison continued to work as a family law specialist, principally practising in the sheriff courts. In the same year she was elected onto the Family Law Association Committee and was Treasurer from 2005 to 2007. She was also a Peer Reviewer for the Law Society of Scotland between 2004 and 2009.

Alison received a Faculty Scholarship for the year 2007/08.

Since coming to the Bar, Alison has continued to practice in a wide range of family related issues, conducting proofs and appeals in both the Sheriff Courts and Court of Session.

Cases

• J Petitioner, [2011] CSOH 215 - child abduction
• B v B [2011] CSOH 198 - expenses
• M v M 2011 Fam LR 124 - relocation, appeal to the Inner House
• B v B [2011] CSOH 127 - contact action
• Aberdeenshire Council, Petitioners 2011 Fam LR 16 - debate on the competency of freeing orders
• M v M 2011 SLT (Sh Ct) 170 - residence and relocation dispute, appeal to the Sheriff Principal
• Lindsay v Murphy 2010 Fam LR 156 - section 28 cohabitation claim
• Z Petitioner 2010 SLT 285 - Hague Convention proceedings
• S v M [2009] CSOH 44 - contact and residence dispute
• M v Scottish Children's Reporter for Renfrewshire 2009 Fam LR 106 - appeal from Children's Hearing Referral
• In re AYF (Grand Court) CILR 434 - Hague Convention proceedings (Cayman Islands)