Languages
- English
Douglas is an experienced commercial litigator, dual qualified in Scotland and England & Wales, with a broad range of experience, including in relation to relation to competition disputes, contractual disputes, data protection, economic torts and insolvency, and cases in the Competition Appeal Tribunal, High Court, Administrative Court and Court of Appeal. He has acted in numerous complex and high-profile cases, including four separate cases featured in "The Lawyer Top 20 Cases". In 2025, Douglas was featured in the "Top 20 Cases: the associates to know".
Douglas has particular expertise in competition damages claims, acting for both Defendants and Claimants in many of the leading cases, across a range of sectors, including Maritime Car Carriers, Interchange Fees, Power Cables, Forex and Air Cargo, and claims in ‘Big Tech’. Douglas has been at the forefront of the developing collective actions regime and has been instructed in several of the formative cases and judgments. These include acting in the first collective action certified on behalf of businesses, acting for a class representative in the first ‘carriage dispute’, acting in the leading Court of Appeal judgment in relation to defendants’ rights to communicate with class members, negotiating the first ever collective settlement (and three of the first five approved settlements), and acting for the class representative in the first follow-on collective action to go to full trial.