Councillor Douglas McAllister

Douglas McAllister was educated in Clydebank. He attended Glasgow University Law School and graduated with an LLB Honours Degree in Law. He therefafter obtained a Diploma in Legal Practice again from Glasgow University. Therefater he completed a Traineeship with a criminal law firm in Glasgow and has since 1996 worked in a private practice as a criminal defence lawyer in Glasgow. Douglas is now a partner with Turnbull McCarron Solicitors and is based within their offices on Crow Road, Partick, Glasgow.

Douglas resides in Hardgate, Clydebank with his wife Allison and two children Tom and Peter, both of whom attend a local primary within his own council ward.

Douglas is a member of the Scottish Law Society and a member of the Glasgow Bar Association. He is also a member of Clydebank and District Golf Club and a committee member of Duntocher Tenants and Residents Association.

Douglas holds weekly surgeries every Thursday evening in both Hardgate and Duntocher

Political Carreer

Douglas was first elected in 2003 as councillor for Hardgate and Faifley North. He served the ward from 2003 to 2007 until re-organisation when he was elected to represent the Kilpatrick ward which includes Duntocher, Faifley and Hardgate. Douglas served as chair of the Planning Committee and the convener of the Licensing Committee of West Dunbartonshire Council from 2004 until 2007 under the Labour administration. Since 2007 Douglas has continued in the role as spokesperson on Planning for the Labour group at West Dunbartonshire Council. From 2003 unril 2007 Douglas chaired West Dunbartonshire Greenspace and served as West Dunbartonshire Council’s representative on Strathclyde Joint Fire Board and since 2007 he cacts as a substitute member foe West Dunbartonshire Council on this Committee.

Douglas is a lifelong Labour Party member as is his immediate family. He comes from a proud socialist family with strong links to the Labour movement and can include his paternal grandmother as a founder member of the Dalmuir branch of the Labour Party. In addition Douglas’s father was a Labour Councillor in Clydebank Burgh and Clydebank District Council  over three decades and served as Labour Provost for Clydebank District Council. Douglas’s father became the first Honorary Freeman of the new West Dunbartonshire Council  Authority. He is also a member of the local branch of the Cooperative Party which affiliated to the Labour Party.