Terra Firma Chambers is to host a full day conference specifically designed to cover a range of issues relating to Commercial Law. The conference will be chaired by Gordon Reid QC and will be held on Monday 3rd September 2012, at the Mackenzie Building, Edinburgh.  more...

Terra Firma Chambers is pleased to announce that Philip Simpson has been appointed as a Standing Junior to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). Fellow Terra Firma members David Bartos and Roddy McIlvride have been re-appointed as Advocate General Standing Juniors, to the DWP and the Secretary of State for the Home Department/ UK Border Agency respectively, while Maurice O'Carroll and Alasdair Burnet are Standing Juniors to the Scottish Government. more...

Terra Firma Chambers' David Parratt has been appointed Director of Training and Education at the Faculty of Advocates, taking over from John Hamilton QC who has held the post since 2009. He assumes responsibility for the Faculty's training programmes for new and existing members and will carry out these duties while maintaining his own practice at the Bar. more...

Terra Firma Chambers will once more provide sponsorship of The Scottish Planning & Environmental Law (SPEL) annual conference which will be held on Thursday 27th September 2012, in Edinburgh. more...

Terra Firma are delighted to announce the election of Gordon Reid QC and Ralph Smith QC as their new Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively. Gordon and Ralph have succeed Roy Martin QC and Douglas Armstrong QC who lead Terra Firma from its inception in 2008, during which the Chambers grew from its 30 founding members to its current strength of 47. more...

Terra Firma Chambers is delighted to announce that Denis Edwards has become the latest addition to the stable having called to the Scottish Bar today.  more...

Ralph Smith QC and Roy Martin QC of Terra Firma Chambers successfully appeared for the first and second respondents respectively in the appeal to the UK Supreme Court by G Hamilton (Tullochgribban Mains) Ltd v The Highland Council and Breedon Aggregates Scotland Ltd. This case concerns applications for review of mineral planning permissions known as ROMP applications under schedule 9 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997. more...

Terra Firma Chambers David Parratt has co-written a chapter for the newly published volume 13 of the Compendium of Scottish Ethnology. more...

Terra Firma member, Derek Francis, successfully appeared in the Tax Chamber on behalf of HMRC in the case of Butlers Ship Stores Ltd & Ors v HMRC. The case concerned duty on consignments of vodka and whisky dispatched from an excise warehouse in Aberdeen which were fraudulently diverted en route to Estonia and Spain. more...