Professor Auchie is a lawyer, academic and resolver with almost three decades of experience of dispute management. He has taught litigation, arbitration, mediation and other dispute resolution methods to thousands of law students (as well as students from other disciplines) over his 20-year academic career. He holds a chair in Dispute Process Law with the School of Law, University of Aberdeen. He has published books, book chapters and journal articles on evidence and process.
Derek has extensive judicial experience, including as an arbitrator (both as sole arbitrator and arbitral chair). He is an experienced mediator, including in commercial, employment and succession disputes.
When in practice, Derek was a busy litigation lawyer, dealing with civil and criminal cases of all types, shapes and sizes, pleading in numerous courts, and instructing counsel in some of the Supreme Courts in Scotland, as well as in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.