Dale Ross
Dale is a Partner in the Private Client team at Blackadders LLP, dealing with wills, tax planning, executries and trusts. Although principally practising as a Scottish solicitor, he is also qualified in England & Wales.
Dale graduated in 1984 with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at the University of Aberdeen, and then in 1986 with an MSc in Operational Research at the University of Sussex. He worked for 7 years in the Operational Research Division and the Policy Unit of the former British Railways Board, and at APACS (the UK bank clearing system). He is a self-taught lawyer, having then undertaken the Law Society of Scotland’s pre-diploma traineeship programme and examinations, before returning to the University of Aberdeen to undertake the Diploma in Legal Practice.
He taught as a tutor on the Diploma in Legal Practice at the University of Edinburgh from 2002, and as Senior Tutor and Course Organiser, and lecturer, from 2009, until 2022. He also served as external examiner on the Diploma in Legal Practice at the University of Dundee from 2016 until 2020.
He has also undertaken the role of examiner on the STEP Diploma in Trusts and Estates, and now acts as examination reviewer for several of the courses STEP courses in Scotland, including Wills & Executries, Taxation of Trusts and Estates, and the STEP Diploma for Financial Services, as well as hosting course seminars.