Ordinary Member
Sir Ian Forrester KC has experience of competition law controversies in Europe, Asia and North America, having argued cases on behalf of government agencies, the European Commission, large and small companies, trade associations and private individuals. He has also handled ECtHR cases on behalf of prisoners, journalists and others. A visiting professor at Glasgow University, he has written about due process, sport, cartels, compulsory licensing and procedural reform. He established the pro bono practice of White & Case. He was nominated by the UK to be a judge in the General Court of the European Union in 2015, and served till his mandate was ended by Brexit. He has returned to the Bar as a practitioner and arbitrator. He was an Assembly Trustee of the Church of Scotland from 2021 to 2025 and from 2019 to 2024 was President of the Franco-British Lawyers Society.