Harvey McGregor QC

Year of call: 1955

Year of silk: 1978

Specialist areas: personal injury and professional negligence

Education: Inverurie Academy; Scarborough Boys High School; Oxford University, The Queen’s College; Harvard University, The Law School; Called to the Bar, 1955; Doctor of Civil Law, 1983 (Oxford’s highest law degree); Doctor of Juridical Science, 1962 (Harvard’s highest law degree)

• Sancheti v Union of India (2009), Supreme Court of India
• Phillips v Whatley (2008), Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
• Nicholson v Knox (2008), High Court 

Publications and lectures

McGregor on Damages: 18th edition out late 2009

On my first edition of McGregor on Damages:

'There can be little doubt that the book is a major piece of scholarship of our generation': Law Quarterly Review, April 1962

'Let there be no doubt about it; the reputation will be a very high one. This monumental work . . .': Modern Law Review, May 1962