Lorna Drummond
Lady Drummond | |
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Senator of the College of Justice | |
Assumed office 2022 | |
Nominated by | Nicola Sturgeon As First Minister |
Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
Personal details | |
Glasgow University University of Cambridge | |
Profession | Advocate |
Lorna Allison Drummond,
She was appointed to the Court of Session in May 2022.[2]
Career
Drummond was
As crown counsel of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, she was the only qualified lawyer on the island, working in a legal system which relies almost entirely on lay magistrates, lay advocates and lay prosecutors.[1]
On Ascension Island, Drummond organised a "Faculty of Advocates' MiniTrial", which required her to adapt two Scots law cases with "references to local features and places on Ascension" for a case involving an assault which led to severe injury, and involved a knife and the possession of the drug ecstasy with intent to supply.[3]
In 2013, Drummond joined
References
- ^ a b "Case Study: Lorna Drummond QC โ Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland". judicialappointments.scot. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- ^ New Judges Appointed, Judiciary of Scotland website, May 2022.
- ^ a b c "Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC appointed to post on tropical island โ Scottish Legal News". Scottish Legal. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Axiom welcomes new member Lorna Drummond QC โ Axiom Advocates". axiomadvocates.com. Retrieved 4 November 2017.