Lord Marnoch retires

Senator plans fishing retirement after 15 years on the bench

News, 18 March 2005

Lord Marnoch is to swap his judicial robes for a fishing rod and waders after a legal career spanning over four decades.

The 66 year old, who has dispensed justice to some of Scotland's most notorious criminals, intends to devote much of his free time fishing for salmon on the River Deveron in Banffshire, according to the Press and Journal.

Born Michael Stewart Rae Bruce and raised in Aberdeen, where his father and grandfather had a law firm, Lord Marnoch studied law at Aberdeen University.

He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1963 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1975. He served as an advocate depute from 1983-1986 and was appointed a judge in the Supreme Courts in 1990.

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