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About
Provided by Sheila Webster
Practice Areas
Head of Dispute Resolution, responsible for development of team, including commercial, property, construction and employment work. Recognised leading specialist in property litigation for many years. Work highlights include (1) landlord/tenant issues, including lease enforcement; keep trading obligations; significant dilapidations claims; successfully acting in lease consent application disputes; notice validity disputes; Tenancy of Shops Act applications; and subletting and assignation disputes; (2) real property issues including challenges to land registration decisions by Keeper of Registers; missives disputes; title conditions advice and applications to the Lands Tribunal to remove title conditions; and servitude and boundary disputes; and (3) commercial litigation including contract disputes; partnership disputes; judicial review applications including in relation to planning and environmental matters; statutory appeals; professional negligence claims; insolvency; and security enforcement. Qualified mediator. Frequently appointed as an arbitrator in property and contract disputes.
Career
Trained Brodies (1989-91); Menzies Dougal Milligan (1991-92); Dundas & Wilson (1992-2002); partner, Bell & Scott (2003-09); partner, Davidson Chalmers Stewart (2009-date).
Professional Memberships
Law Society of Scotland; WS Society; Property Litigation Association; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Ambassador, Scottish Arbitration Centre.
Current Past-President of the Law Society of Scotland.
Personal
Education: Bridge of Don Academy, Aberdeen; University of Aberdeen (1988 LLB Hons; 1989 DipLP); University of Manchester (2002 MBA).
Leisure: Travel, reading, family.
Chambers Review
UK
Sheila Webster, who heads Davidson Chalmers Stewart's dispute resolution team, is well regarded for her skills in property litigation. She assists high-profile clients in complex disputes including landlord and tenant issues, dilapidations claims and judicial reviews. Additionally, Webster is often sought after for her talents in arbitrations and mediations.
Sheila Webster leads the dispute resolution team at Davidson Chalmers Stewart and maintains a broad litigation practice that encompasses significant contract disputes. She can also provide clients with the benefit of her skills as a mediator.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sheila has a huge amount of experience with litigation work; she is particularly valuable at knowing and dealing with the courts and has good knowledge of the construction sector."
"She gets to the core and commercial points of the issue quickly and doesn't get bogged down in discussing technicalities. She finds the best way to achieve an outcome in our interest."
"Sheila Webster is a star performer and a very robust negotiator."
"Sheila Webster is extremely experienced in real estate litigation."
"Sheila has a huge amount of experience with litigation work. She deals with advocates very well."
"Sheila has a huge amount of experience with litigation work; she is particularly valuable at knowing and dealing with the courts and has good knowledge of the construction sector."
"She gets to the core and commercial points of the issue quickly and doesn't get bogged down in discussing technicalities. She finds the best way to achieve an outcome in our interest."
"Sheila Webster is a star performer and a very robust negotiator."
"Sheila Webster is extremely experienced in real estate litigation."
"Sheila has a huge amount of experience with litigation work. She deals with advocates very well."
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