Your Law Society of Scotland Council members

The full list of current members, elected, ex officio, co-opted and non-solicitor

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Sheriff Court Districts of Aberdeen, Banff, Peterhead & Stonehaven

Jane Dickers 
Gray & Gray LLP, Peterhead.
e: jane@gray graylaw.com

Deborah Anne Wilson
Wilson Defence, Banff
e: [email protected]

Sheriff Court Districts of Airdrie, Hamilton & Lanark

Paul Gostelow
Baker Gostelow Law Ltd, Blantyre
e: [email protected]

Paul Nicolson
Nicolson O’Brien, Airdrie
e: [email protected]

Sheriff Court Districts of Alloa, Falkirk, Linlithgow & Stirling

Ken Dalling
Dalling Solicitors, Stirling
e: [email protected]

John Mulholland
Marshall Wilson Law Group Ltd, Falkirk
e: [email protected] 

Sheriff Court Districts of Arbroath, Dundee & Forfar

Murray Etherington
Thorntons Law, Dundee
e: [email protected]

Sheriff Court Districts of Ayr, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright & Stranraer

Lauren Fowler
Frazer Coogans Ltd, Ayr
e: [email protected]

Paul Matthews
Grieve, Grierson, Moodie & Walker, Dumfries
e: [email protected] 

Sheriff Court Districts of Campbeltown, Dunoon, Oban, Rothesay & Fort William

Philip Lafferty
Clyde Defence Lawyers Ltd, Clydebank
e: plafferty@clydedefence lawyers.com

Campbell Read
Stewart, Balfour & Sutherland, Campbeltown
e: [email protected] 

Sheriff Court Districts of Cupar, Dunfermline & Kirkcaldy

Gwen Haggerty 
BSW Solicitors LLP, Dunfermline
e: [email protected]

Susan Williams
WilliamsGrayWilliams, Cupar
e: [email protected]

Sheriff Court Districts of Dingwall, Dornoch, Elgin, Inverness, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Lochmaddy, Portree, Stornoway, Tain & Wick

George MacWilliam
Wright Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, Inverness
e: [email protected]

Sheekha Saha
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Stornoway
e: [email protected] 

Sheriff Court Districts of Duns, Haddington, Jedburgh, Peebles & Selkirk

Iain Burke
Bannerman Burke, Selkirk
e: [email protected]

Patricia Thom
Patricia Thom & Co, Galashiels
e: [email protected]

Sheriff Court District of Edinburgh

Colin Anderson
e: [email protected]

Susan Murray 
National Health Service Scotland
e: [email protected] 

Susan Oswald
SKO Family Ltd
e: [email protected]

Jim Stephenson
Thorley Stephenson
e: jps@thorley stephenson.com 

Sheila Webster
Davidson Chalmers LLP
e: [email protected] 

England & Wales

Naomi Pryde
Dentons UKMEA LLP, Watford
e: [email protected]

Sheriffdom of Glasgow & Strathkelvin

Alison Atack
(Vice President) Lindsays
e: [email protected] 

Austin Lafferty
Austin Lafferty Ltd
e: [email protected] 

Anne Macdonald
Harper Macleod LLP
e: [email protected]

David Mair
Glasgow City Council
e: [email protected]

Ross Yuill
The Glasgow Law Practice
e: ry@theglasgow lawpractice.co.uk

Sheriff Court Districts of Greenock, Kilmarnock & Paisley

Simon Brown
Matthew Brown, Irvine
e: [email protected] 

Stuart Naismith
Stirling & Mair Ltd, Johnstone
e: [email protected]

Sheriff Court District of Perth

Amanda Millar
McCash & Hunter LLP
e: [email protected]

Ex officio

Graham Matthews (President)
Peterkins, Inverurie
e: [email protected]

Alison Atack (Vice President)
Lindsays
e: [email protected]

Eilidh Wiseman (Past President)
e: [email protected]

Christine McLintock (Past President 2016-17)
e: [email protected] 

Co-opted

John Forsyth
Lloyds Banking Group plc
e: [email protected] 

Stephen McGowan
Procurator Fiscal Service, Edinburgh
e: [email protected]

Graeme McWilliams
Standard Life, Edinburgh
e: [email protected]

Murray Sinclair
Scottish Government Legal Service
e: [email protected] 

Ayla Skene
Pinsent Masons LLP, Glasgow
@ayla_skene 

Non-solicitor members

Susan Carter
(East Midlands) 

Christopher Fraser
(Inverness) 

Fiona Larg
(Inverness) 

Liam McCabe
(Stirling)  

Derek McIntyre
(Glasgow) 

Catriona Maclean
(Edinburgh) 

John Reid
(Stirling) 

Christine Walsh
(Glasgow) 

Graham Watson
(Earslferry)