News In Focus
22 April 2009
Scotland gets two new sheriffs
Two solicitors have been appointed all-Scotland floating sheriffs, based in Dundee and Kirkcaldy.
George Alexander Way and James Hunter Williamson will each have a commission enabling them to serve where required throughout Scotland's sheriff courts, but in practice they will be expected to sit mostly in the Sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife.
Mr Way (52), an Edinburgh University graduate, is the senior litigation partner with Beveridge & Kellas SSC in Edinburgh. He was admitted as a solicitor advocate in November 2003 and is an accredited mediator and arbiter. Since 2003 Mr Way has also been the procurator fiscal to the Court of the Lord Lyon. He is a Past President of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts, and convener of Civil Justice on the Council of the Law Society of Scotland.
Mr Williamson (48) graduated from the University of Dundee in 1982, and is currently a partner in the court department of Lawson Coull & Duncan in Dundee, where he practises both civil and criminal work. He has been a part-time sheriff since 2003.