News In Focus
16 July 2007
Solicitor appointment to tribunal committee
A solicitor has been appointed as one of two new members to the Scottish Committee of the Council on Tribunals.
The Scottish Committee of the Council on Tribunals supervises the procedural workings of tribunals and inquiries. Eileen MacDonald is a practising solicitor with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency where she is responsible for the practical implementation of water legislation. She is also the director of The Vine Trust charity.
The other appointment is Michael Menlowe, who most recently worked as head of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences in the University of Edinburgh. He is an associate of the General Medical Council (GMC) where he sits as a lay panellist on Fitness to Practise panels, the disciplinary tribunals of the GMC. Mr Menlowe is also a board member of the Scottish Refugee Council and a lay member of the Royal College of Pathologists.
Both appointments, which are part-time, started on 1 July and will be for four years to 30 June 2011.