| Rosemary Agnew Scottish Information Commissioner. Scottish Information Commissioner Rosemary Agnew was appointed as Scottish Information Commissioner on 1 May 2012 for a fixed term of six years. She previously held the posts of Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission and Assistant Ombudsman at the Local Government Ombudsman, and so is familiar with operating within a regulatory environment. Her extensive public sector experience (which has ranged from policy and business development to complaints handling) includes managing authority compliance with freedom of information laws. She has first-hand experience of leading the development of an open culture in a Scottish public authority essential, in her view, to achieving FOI compliance. | |
| 0 | Anna Cameron Associate CMS Cameron McKenna Anna is an Associate in the Energy Team at CMS Cameron McKenna, with breadth and depth of experience in a wide range of contracts across the energy and renewables sector. She specialises in project financed renewable energy transactions, advising both lender and developers in securing funding, and guiding both parties through the due diligence process. On such transactions, Anna will carry out full legal due diligence on infrastructure, power purchase, planning and insurance issues, preparation of corporate documentation and negotiation of security arrangements. She is involved in negotiating the terms of such documents as required, while ensuring an effective security package for the lender. Anna has acted as legal lead on project financed transactions across a variety of technologies, including onshore wind, hydro, solar and biomass. |
| Donald Cumming Partner CMS Cameron McKenna Donald is a partner in the Energy and Utilities team. Originally from a corporate background, he has been advising clients in the UK energy and infrastructure sector for over 25 years, with a particular focus on the electricity and water industries. His work has included conventional power projects, renewable energy projects, sector restructurings, separation of regulated businesses, joint ventures, and regulatory licences and codes. He also has extensive experience in general corporate and commercial matters, including contract work and energy-related M&A transactions. | |
| Catherine Dyer Chief Executive Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Catherine Dyer is the first woman appointed Crown Agent for Scotland. Her principal role is Chief Executive of the Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), acting as civil service head of the staff and legal advisor to the Lord Advocate on prosecution matters. When she was Procurator Fiscal at Linlithgow she was asked to carry out a major management review of COPFS. She was joint author of the Pryce-Dyer report, published in Spring 2002 , marking the beginning of major modernisation in COPFS. As COPFS Head of Change Management from April 2002 she led the team implementing the reforms recommended in the report and in 2003 became the first woman to be appointed Procurator Fiscal for Glasgow. After 5 years leading COPFS largest and busiest office she went on to set up and lead the COPFS Strategy & Delivery Division in May 2008. Catherine is a solicitor with a private practice background as well as extensive experience as a prosecutor. | |
| Lorna Jack Chief Executive The Law Society of Scotland Lorna joined the Society in January 2009. Prior to the Law Society, Lorna was based in the United States, as President Americas for Scottish Development International (SDI), the Scottish Government's trade and investment arm. In this role, she was responsible for operations across five locations in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil and at an early stage she delivered a large operational restructuring and redirection of this team. Under her leadership, the team delivered significant gains on its inward investment agenda (including new and expansion projects with Dell, Amazon, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Trump and Wyeth). They also supported around 150 Scottish companies every year to tackle the Americas market. This included the option of co-locating with SDI in cities throughout the US when companies were making their first real step into the North American market. Previously, Lorna was Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise (SE) Forth Valley, one of 12 local enterprise companies covering Scotland. Prior to her appointment to the Chief Executive role in 2000, she was Director of Operations for two years. Before joining SE Forth Valley, she was Head of the SE Global Companies Enquiry Team. She has also served as Head of the Food Team at SE as well as head of a team at SE Grampian that provided training to the food and manufacturing sectors. A chartered accountant by profession, she completed her training with Arthur Andersen and spent six years in financial management roles with a UK telecoms and cable television company before joining SE. She is a graduate of Aberdeen University and for four years sat on the board of the university's US Development Trust. | |
| Charles Livingstone Partner Brodies Charles is a Partner in Brodies' Public Law & Regulatory team, and deals with a broad range of public law issues. He has handled judicial reviews and statutory appeals in the Court of Session, Supreme Court and CJEU, and advises clients in both the public and private sectors on matters such as statutory interpretation, human rights, EU law, FOI and data protection, private legislation and the limits on the powers of the Scottish Parliament. He also advises clients on competition law issues such as antitrust, State aid and public procurement. He is named by Chambers in both Administrative & Public Law and Competition Law. Charles was an in-demand commentator on the legal issues that arose in the Scottish independence debate, and advised a wide range of domestic and international clients on the legal / constitutional risks and opportunities the referendum presented. He is a member of the Society’s Constitutional Law Sub-committee. | |
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| David Morgan Partner Burness Paull LLP David Morgan is a partner in the employment law team at Burness Paull LLP and heads up the firm’s Dispute Resolution Department. David is singled out by Chambers UK as a ‘leading individual’ (Tier 1) in employment law and he is an accredited specialist in employment law with the Law Society of Scotland. David is an accredited mediator and an accomplished trainer on all areas of employment law. Burness Paull LLP is one of the leading law firms in Scotland, with one of the largest teams of employment lawyers in the country. | |
| Rachel Oliphant Senior Practice Development Lawyer Pinsent Masons LLP Rachel is a senior practice development lawyer for the property team at Pinsent Masons. After seven years practising as a commercial property solicitor in England and Scotland (primarily involved in development and retail work) Rachel became a practice development lawyer, ensuring that knowledge gained within the team is shared firm wide and readily accessible in the future. Rachel is a founding member of the Property Standardisation Group which was created in 2001 by four leading Scottish firms to produce agreed forms of documents and procedures for Scottish commercial property transactions for the benefit of the profession as a whole. The PSG won awards for innovation and has provided a valuable resource for the profession in times of rapid changes in property law and procedure. Rachel is a member of the Scottish Property PSL Group and co-chairs a liaison group between the PSL Group and the Registers of Scotland. | |
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| Lynda Towers Chair of the In-house Lawyers Committee Scottish Government | |
