A warm welcome to two further mew members who have joined the Society in 2026.
Sir Antony Edwards-Stuart started practice at 2 Crown Office Row (now Crown Office Chambers) in 1978 after completion of pupillage, following 10 years as a regular Army officer in the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. He developed a busy general common law and commercial practice and was appointed QC and Assistant Recorder 13 years later, in 1991. In 2005 he was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge (QBD) and was also elected as Head of Chambers. He was appointed a High Court Judge in 2009 and, from 2013 to 2016, was the Judge in Charge of the Technology & Construction Court (TCC). He retired from the High Court Bench in November 2016.
In addition to his role in the TCC, Sir Antony was a designated judge of the Administrative Court and has heard many cases involving judicial review and European law. In May 2016 he was awarded the Society of Construction Law President’s Medal for his “outstanding contribution to construction law” (the medal is awarded every other year).
His main areas of practice at the Bar were insurance/reinsurance, professional negligence, construction, pollution, product liability, sale of goods and general commercial contract work; latterly with a particular emphasis on complex construction engineering, technical or scientific cases. He appeared as counsel in both the High Court and arbitrations, as well as acting as an international arbitrator.
He was recommended in the legal directories as a Leading Silk in the fields of Construction, Professional Negligence and Insurance/Reinsurance.
Since his retirement from the High Court, Sir Antony has accepted appointments as party appointed arbitrator or chairman in many international and domestic arbitrations. In addition, in 2018 he was appointed Deputy Chair of the Security Vetting Appeals Panel.
Sir Antony is married with adult children, and has lived mainly in London. His principal interest has been the restoration and maintenance of a property in France, which his family owned for over 30 years, and the preservation of local rural traditions.
With a career in the law spanning more than 55 years, as a practising barrister, with more than 35 in silk, Edwin Glasgow CBE KC has latterly acquired extensive experience as a popular arbitrator and an outstandingly successful mediator, having successfully settled in excess of 90 per cent of many hundreds of mediations in which he has been appointed, both domestically and internationally. In addition to more than 350 domestic disputes, he has conducted arbitrations and mediations, principally in commercial and construction matters, in Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Mauritius, South Africa, and USA. He was the founding chairman of the Singapore International Mediation Centre.
He accepts arbitral appointments from all major bodies, including ICC; LCIA; JAMS; SIAC; AFSA - in addition to ad hoc appointments. His international arbitral appointments have ranged from commercial, insurance, and reinsurance cases; to international infra-structure disputes in which he has also sat on a number of Dispute Boards.
Edwin also has extensive experience in sporting matters, and was for more than 5 years the chairman of Sport Resolutions UK; was President of the FIA International Tribunal and Vice-President of the International Court of Appeal for 10 years; was the Chairman of Stewards of the RAC for 15 years; and was Chairman of Trustees of Harlequins Rugby for 10 years. He has conducted more than 50 sports arbitrations and has presided over numerous disciplinary hearings into Rugby, Football, Athletics, FI Motor Racing, Karting, Horse Racing, Table Tennis, and Boxing. His has been a member of Thames Ditton Cricket club for 53 years continues to be an active Vice-President.
He was presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards both in the UK and in South Africa. He was awarded CBE 1998, for services to financial reporting and the City of London. He was chairman of the Financial Reporting Review Panel between 1992 and 1998, has extensive experience in complex financial disputes, and was a judge of the Qatar Financial Regulatory Tribunal between 2015 and 2025. He also has a particular interest in legal education: he was the founding chairman of the International Advocacy Training Council and of the UK Bar’s Advocacy Training Council. Edwin has served as a judge on several prestigious panels and continues to lecture on law, advocacy and ethics around the world.