W Resources Plc announced the appointment of David Garland as Non-Executive Director of the company with immediate effect. David Garland practised between 1987 and 2007 as a barrister at Brick Court Chambers, London, a leading Commercial and European law barristers' chambers in England. David's practice covered most aspects of commercial law, including commercial contracts and corporate governance.

Between 2007 and 2012 David was General Counsel and Company Secretary to Dominion Petroleum Limited an AIM-listed oil and gas exploration company incorporated in Bermuda with exploration areas in Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya until it was acquired by Ophir Energy plc. David was a founder, and is currently General Counsel and a director, of Atacama Metals Holdings Limited, a private Hong Kong registered copper exploration company, with mining concessions and interests, in the Atacama Desert in Chile.