News In Focus
8 April 2009
Solicitor makes mark on the bench
Sheriff Principal Brian Lockhart has been appointed a temporary judge of the High Court of Justiciary. It is thought that he is the first former solicitor to sit on the bench in the supreme courts without first becoming a member of the bar. He was appointed to the shrieval bench direct from private practice as a solicitor.
He has been assigned by the Lord Justice General to sit part-time in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
The Society’s President, Richard Henderson, said: “The appointment of Sheriff Principal Lockhart is a landmark for the solicitors’ branch of the profession, which continues to operate at the heart of civic Scotland.”