Legal Director

Jamie Dunne

Jamie is an experienced competition, procurement and subsidy control lawyer, and also advises a range of public, private and third sector clients on public law and regulatory matters including statutory interpretation, vires issues and information law. He joined Brodies from a leading international law firm and has also spent time on secondment to the public sector. His focus is on advising on technically complex matters in a clear, understandable and useful way.

Jamie regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious public procurement matters, subsidy control and State aid, merger control issues (including CMA and European Commission clearance processes), competition damages actions and competition compliance. He has a particular interest in sectors subject to economic regulation, including energy, water, telecoms, rail, ports and airports, financial services, housing and health services, and further and higher education.

Living Brodies' values

Jamie is a passionate advocate for diversity, equal access and inclusion both in the legal profession and beyond.

Key highlights

Convener of the Law Society's Competition Law committee and Scottish Competition Forum steering group member.
Tutor in public law at Edinburgh University since 2010 and in EU law since 2013.
Substantial secondment experience at a major economic and competition regulator, including drafting subordinate legislation and guidance.

Rankings

Jamie is a Law Society of Scotland accredited specialist in public procurement law.
Jamie is listed as an Associate to Watch in competition law and local government law in Chambers UK 2025.
Legal 500 2025 ranks Jamie as a Leading Associate in EU & competition law and local government law.

What are collective proceedings?

Collective proceedings are a type of class action that are brought in the Competition Appeal Tribunal in relation to breaches of competition law, where multiple cases raise the same, similar or related issues of fact or law.
Are collective proceedings opt in or opt out?

Initially, collective proceedings could only be brought on an opt-in basis, but the Consumer Rights Act 2015 made it possible to bring them on an opt-out basis as well.

For opt-out claims, any UK-domiciled person who is part of the class of business or consumer affected by the breach of competition law is automatically included in the claim unless they've specifically opted out.
How do collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal work?

Collective proceedings are brought by a person who proposes to be a class representative for claims brought by all members of the class affected by the breach of competition law.

The representative asks the tribunal to make a collective proceedings order, which authorises them to be the class representative, defines the class that they are authorised to represent, and says whether that's on an opt-in or an opt-out basis.

Class Action FAQs

Jamie Dunne is an exceptional senior associate who provides succinct legal advice on complex and developing areas of law. He is able to get to the nub of the issue quickly and is clearly an expert in his field.

Legal 500 UK 2025

He is a first-class operator who gets to grips with the salient details of a matter quickly. He provides succinct advice and his knowledge of the public sector is extensive.

Chambers UK 2025

He's extremely approachable, happy to chat any time and his knowledge of the law is excellent. He's more than willing to go the extra mile, chatting issues through and exploring other angles.

Chambers UK 2025

Jamie Dunne has been fantastic and is very knowledgeable in these areas. He has given outstanding feedback in really difficult and boring area of the law, which he made really come alive.

Chambers UK 2025