APIL Vice President - Gordon Dalyell

The staff report to an executive committee of elected APIL members, which is led by a team of officers comprising the president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Executive committee members work on a voluntary basis, tirelessly striving to achieve APIL’s objectives for the benefit of injured people.

The executive committee meets on a regular basis, usually between six to eight times annually. The dates for 2018 are as follows:

EC meetings
Thursday 18 January	10:30am – 3:30pm
Thursday 15 March	10:30am – 3:30pm
M/T/W 16/17/18 April	Annual conference EC/SIG/REG
Thursday 17 May	10:30am – 3:30pm
Thursday 12 July	10:30am – 3:30pm
Thursday 20 September	10:30am – 3:30pm
Thursday 8 November	10:30am – 3:30pm
Thursday 13 December	10.30am – 3.30pm

Gordon Dalyell

Role: Vice President

Firm: DIGBY BROWN LLP

Further details for Gordon Dalyell are displayed below.

Role

Name

President

Brett Dixon

Vice President

Gordon Dalyell

Treasurer

Jill Greenfield

Secretary

John McQuater

Immediate Past President

Committee members

John Michael Imperato

Past Officers and EC members

Biography
Responsibilities
Declaration of interests
How to become an EC member

Gordon Dalyell is a partner with Digby Brown, having joined them in 1998. He has specialised in personal injury work for almost twenty years both in the Court of Session and Sheriff Court.

Gordon qualified as a Solicitor-Advocate in 2003. He has been accredited as a specialist in Personal Injury Law by the Law Society of Scotland.

He is a senior litigator member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and was elected as the Executive Committee member for Scotland in 2010.

The vice-president shall preside over all meetings in the absence of the president
In the event of a vacancy in the office of president, the vice-president shall take his or her place
The vice-president is expected to deputise for the president, where necessary, in any work the president is unable to undertake for whatever reason.

Member of Digby Brown LLP

Director of Compensation Claims Funding Limited

Member of Labour Party

Member of GMB

Director of Centre for Scottish Public Policy

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- Special Interest Group Co-ordinators
- Special Interest Group Secretaries
- Regional Group Co-ordinators
- Regional Group Secretaries
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