John Macleod

Although a graduate of Aberdeen University, John’s early legal life was spent in Edinburgh where, after completing a traineeship in Leith, he spent his early legal life. Subsequently he and his wife moved to the Highlands where he was latterly a partner in his firm there. Family circumstances dictated another move which brought him back to the Central Belt of Scotland where he and his wife have lived and worked since.

John has a considerable body of experience in most aspects of property law, including commercial property, leasing, some development work and in the varied aspects of rural property law. Within Cannons, John is a senior member of the Commercial Property team which covers most of what he does but of course he will happily deal with most other aspects of property work. If you have an interest in any legal work involving Property, John will be happy to discuss it with you, whether in broad developmental terms or in a specific and if appropriate following any such conversation, he will be please to carry out any work that you may require.

Margaret Stewart

(Mags) has been with the firm for seven years.  She is married with two daughters and lives on the south side of Glasgow and enjoys working in a family business.

Although she is a very experienced Legal Cashier (SOLAS accredited) and also plays a big part in managing the office, Margaret has recently become more involved in Executry work and Will drafting. Apparently people are dying to meet her!

John Wilkinson - Partner

Graduating from the University of Strathclyde, and following many years of successful practice throughout Scotland’s Courts and Tribunals, John joined Cannons in 2007 to head our litigation and dispute resolution team. With 15 years of experience conducting  all types of Civil Litigation, particularly private and commercial litigation, he has proven himself to be a highly motivated and successful court practitioner. Admitted  as a Solicitor Advocate, he has extended rights of audience to appear before the Court of Session and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ( formerly the House of Lords). He is able to fully assist those clients who require advice and representation in the Court of Session without necessarily incurring the added cost of Counsel and Edinburgh Agents. In addition to his Court of Session responsibilities John  maintains a busy Sheriff Court and Tribunal practice. John ensures that our clients are provided with tailored solutions to meet their individual needs.

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Nicola Simone Cannon - Senior partner of the firm.

She holds the degrees of BA and LLB from Strathclyde University. Trained in Edinburgh, in all aspects of solicitors’ work, including all work in the Supreme Courts, Nicola has been a qualified lawyer since 1997. She is also a Notary Public.

Mostly, Nicola’s work-load involves commercial property, leases, retail and licensed trade; she is also the compliance partner. But she provides all the drive and enthusiasm for the ethos of the firm, and keeps everyone on their toes - staff, clients and other lawyers alike!!.

Nicola is married and lives in Glasgow during the week; but her real home (and her heart) is on the island of Mull, at Tobermory, where she tries to live every weekend. Her husband, a merchant navy officer, now travels the world as a consulting marine superintendent. When not working both she and Robert indulge their passion for West Coast sailing, and Robert also mans the Tobermory Lifeboat.

Nicola and Robert are keen fans of the Vatersay Boys.

Frank Cannon

has been a lawyer for nearly 45 years. He is now a consultant with the firm, and most of his work centres around a few special clients.

Frank holds the degree of LLB from Glasgow University, is qualified as a pilot, and also speaks French, having studied at Paris.

In his time Frank has carried out every type of lawyer’s work. As a young lawyer he defended those accused of crime - everything from murder to terrorism. He famously defended a man wrongly accused of 26 charges of serious fraud, in which the jury returned 26 unanimous verdicts of “not guilty”. He progressed onto civil litigation, working on cases from negligence to commercial fraud. He was the first UK lawyer to recover damages in the American Courts (in Houston, and Corpus Christi, Texas), for widows and children in respect of North Sea oil-related fatal accidents. He was involved in the Piper Alpha recovery.

As a consultant, Mr Cannon is now available to lend a wise ear and sound advice to exhuberant young lawyers, whose enthusiasm is not matched by their experience, and is called on to give second opinions on a wide range of legal matters.

Frank Cannon is as well known in aviation as he is in law. He flew innumerable missions as an air ambulance pilot from 1975 until 1995, and also carried out transatlantic, and other long distance, ferry flights. He ran an airline in the 80’s before selling this on to others. He specializes in Aviation Law, and has been called on to act for airlines, pilots and other aircrew, as well as for passengers. He gave advice in the first accident involving “overhead -lockers” when a woman sustained a serious eye injury when a fellow passenger opened an overhead locker and an article fell out, injuring her. He has frequently defended pilots in respect of blame for accidents, especially when they were no longer around to defend themselves.

Nicola is one of his 2 daughters; the other one being a captain with KLM.

Not at all a golf person, when not at the coal-face of the law, Frank likes to indulge his passion for aerobatic flying, and sailing his boat quietly out of Inverkip marina.

He is married and lives in Glasgow’s West End.

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