"professional, helpful and thorough and we found his work to be of an extremely high quality." Lorna Johnston, Executive Director, Standards Commission for Scotland
ABOUT ME
This is the consultancy site for Andrew Ferguson. I have 30 years of experience in legal and administrative roles in councils and other public bodies, with specialisms in property, transportation and planning law, as well as governance.
Past and current clients include the Standards Commission for Scotland, Perth & Kinross Council, and two other local authorities.
Amongst other books, I’m the author of Common Good Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2nd Edition, 2019) and co-author of Local Planning Reviews in Scotland (Avizandum, 2015). I write regularly on legal topics and give seminars and webinars on behalf of various providers including Central Law Training.
EDUCATION/LANGUAGES
INTERESTS
Common Good
All aspects of common good property
1980 - 85
University of Edinburgh
LLB (Hons) DipLP
Transportation
Regional Transport Partnerships
Town and Country Planning
Committee decisions; local review bodies
Governance
How public bodies take decisions
I speak Spanish, and can arrange for translations of official documents.