 Professor Lorne D Crerar LLB (Hons) NP is one of the founding partners of Harper Macleod and is the firm's Chairman. He is retained by several institutions as their principal legal advisor and is responsible for the creation and implementation of the firm's ongoing strategic policy.
He was elected to the role and status of Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland in June 1999. He was invited to lecture at the University of Glasgow in 1981 and since that time has, on a visiting basis, lectured on matters relating to Banking Law, Business Law and Commercial Contract Law. Butterworth’s published his book, “The Law of Banking in Scotland”, in 1997 and the second edition was published in February 2007. Lorne was appointed to the Chair in Banking Law and took up the part-time post of Professor of Banking Law at the University of Glasgow in July 1997.
Lorne was Deputy Chairman of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow until his resignation in November 2003 due to work commitments. Lorne was appointed Convener of the Standards Commission in June 2003 (under the Ethical Standards in Public Life Etc (Scotland) Act 2000) and retired from Office in September 2006 to take up the “Independent Review of Regulation, Audit, Inspection and Complaints Handling of Public Services in Scotland”. His report (The Crerar Review) was published in September 2007. He was a Chairman of the Housing Improvement Task Force and was responsible for the creation of the concept of the “Single Survey”, which is now incorporated in statute - The Housing (Scotland) Act 2006.
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