Appendix 1: Membership of the Judicial
Appointments Board for Scotland[6]
The Board comprises 10 members, including the Chairman,
who were all appointed by the Scottish Ministers, to whom the
Board is responsible for its activities. There is an even balance
of legal and lay members.
Lay Members
Sir Neil McIntosh CBE DL (Chairman)
Sir Neil has had an extensive career in industry
and local government, latterly as Chief Executive of Dumfries
and Galloway Regional Council (1985-1992), then Strathclyde Regional
Council (1992-1996). He co-ordinated the response of Dumfries
and Galloway Regional Council to the Lockerbie Disaster in 1988
and was awarded the CBE in 1990.
Other public service includes his recent service
as Convener of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
and current membership of the UK Electoral Commission, Trustee
of the National Museums of Scotland and Scottish Adviser to the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He received a knighthood in 2000.
Mrs Barbara Duffner OBE
Mrs Duffner is head of Personnel North, Royal Mail
(covering Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England).
Her whole career has been with the Royal Mail and she has a wide
experience in strategic planning, organisational development and
change, line management, personnel, and executive committee for
one of 9 Royal Mail Divisions. She was awarded the OBE in 2002.
Other public service includes Chair of the Children's
Hospice Association, membership of the Welfare to Work Task Force
in Scotland and of the Qualifications Committee of the QCA in
England. Mrs Duffner was chair of the Careers Service Review from
November 1999 to October 2000.
Sir Robert Smith
Sir Robert is Chairman of The Weir Group plc and
is BBC National Governor for Scotland. He is currently on the
board of the British Council, Network Rail and Aegon UK and is
a member of the Financial Reporting Council. He has held appointment
at Chief Executive and Chairman level of several commercial companies,
most recently the Vice Chairmanship of Deutsche Asset Management
and Chief Executive of Morgan Grenfell Asset Management. He received
a knighthood in 1999.
Other public appointments include Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland (1993-2002),
Past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
(1996-97), Member of the Financial Services Authority 1997-2000),
Commissioner (1988-1998) and Vice Chairman (1997-1998) of the
Museums and Galleries Commission.
Professor Alan Paterson
Alan Paterson is the Director of the Centre for Professional
Legal Studies and a Professor of Law at Strathclyde University
since 1984. He was a Lecturer, Law Faculty, Edinburgh University
from 1975-1984.
He has held a number of other public appointments
and most recently became a member of the Advisory Council, Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies, London University, Director/Trustee
of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute and a co-opted
Member of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland. In addition,
Professor Paterson has undertaken academic research into and published
widely on judges and judicial appointments and in 2000 researched
the operation of the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
of Ontario, leading to the delivery of several seminars in the
UK and Australia on the subject of Judicial Appointments.
Professor Joan Stringer CBE
In January 2003, Professor Stringer became Principal
and Vice Chancellor of Napier University, prior to which she was
Principal of Queen Margaret University College.
Previous appointments include Assistant Principal
at Robert Gordon University from 1991-1996 and Head of Public
Administration and Law, Robert Gordon University from 1988-1991.
She was a Lecturer there from 1981-1988. She was awarded CBE in
2001 for services to higher education.
A number of other public appointments held include
Vice Convener, Universities Scotland, Scottish Commissioner for
the Equal Opportunities Commission (1995-2001), Member of the
Universities UK Equality Challenge Steering Group, Member of the
Scottish Committee of the British Council and Convener of the
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisation (SCVO).
Legal Members
Michael Scanlan
Michael Scanlan was admitted as Solicitor in 1971
and is currently a partner in the Glasgow firm of Russells Gibson
McCaffrey. He was formerly President of the Law Society of Scotland
and is currently a member of the Council of that body.
Other experience and public appointments held include
Temporary Sheriff from 1986-1996, lecturer in the law of Evidence
and Procedure at Strathclyde University and External Examiner
in Evidence and Procedure at Glasgow University.
Colin Campbell QC
Colin Campbell was admitted to the Bar in 1977 and
took Silk in 1990. He was elected Dean of the Faculty of Advocates
in October 2001. Before that he was Vice-Dean of the Faculty for
4 years and a part-time member of the Mental Welfare Commission
for Scotland from 1997-2001.
Earlier in his career Mr Campbell lectured in the
Scottish Law Department of the University of Edinburgh and was
Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Development Department.
The Rt Hon Lord MacLean
Lord MacLean was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates
in 1964 and took Silk in 1977. He was appointed Senator of the
College of Justice in 1990 and was elevated to Inner House Judge
and appointed to the Privy Council in April 2001.
Whilst a practising Advocate, Lord MacLean was Standing
Junior Counsel to the Health and Safety Executive (Scotland) 1975-77
and Home Advocate Depute from 1979-1982.
Other public appointments held include Chairman of
the Committee on Serious, Violent and Sexual Offenders 1999-2000,
Member of the Parole Board for Scotland 1998-2000 and Chairman
of Governors, Fettes College from 1996.
Sheriff Principal Bruce Kerr QC
Sheriff Principal Kerr was appointed Sheriff Principal
of North Strathclyde on 1 January 1999. He began his career as
an Advocate and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates on 1973,
taking Silk in 1986. He served as a Temporary Sheriff before being
appointed Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin in September 1994.
As a practising Advocate he was Standing Junior Counsel
to the Home Office in Scotland (1982-1985) and was Advocate Depute
from 1986-1989.
Sheriff Douglas Allan
Sheriff Allan was first appointed Sheriff of South
Strathclyde Dumfries and Galloway at Lanark in 1988 where he served
until transferring to the Sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders in
August 2000 where he sits as Sheriff at Edinburgh. Prior to taking
up judicial office, Sheriff Allan was admitted as a solicitor
in 1963 and from 1967 worked in the Procurator Fiscal Service,
serving in the courts in Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as the
Crown Office before becoming Regional Procurator Fiscal for Lothian
and Borders (1983-1988).
Among other appointments held he served as Honorary
Secretary and Treasurer (1991-97), Vice President (1997-2000)
and President (2000-2002) of the Sheriffs' Association. He was
a member of the Mental Welfare Review Committee and is a Board
member and Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Children's Reporter
Administration.
6 Taken from the website of the Judicial Appointments
Board for Scotland, www.judicialappointmentsscotland.gov.uk. Back
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