Gillian works with the Family Law team across a wide range of client matters, bringing her expertise in family law from academia, where she is Professor of Scots Private Law at the University of Edinburgh.

She has researched and published on adult relationships, children’s rights, the parent/child relationship, and privacy in family law. Her published work includes analyses of legal parental status and the significance of genetics, including the impact of donor conception and surrogacy. She has also explored the legal significance of sex to the creation and termination of adult relationships, and privacy concerns arising from Scotland’s current divorce laws. Gillian regularly provides training and CPD to the profession and judiciary.

In addition to her consultancy work at the firm, Gillian is currently a Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission, where she leads projects for law reform in relation to civil remedies for domestic abuse, and in relation to executry law. She previously led the Scottish contribution to the Joint Project on surrogacy law reform with the Law Commission of England and Wales.