Skip to content
Law Society of Scotland
Search
Find a Solicitor
Contact us
About us
Sign in
Search
Find a Solicitor
Contact us
About us
Sign in
  • For members

    • For members

    • CPD & Training

    • Membership and fees

    • Rules and guidance

    • Regulation and compliance

    • Journal

    • Business support

    • Career growth

    • Member benefits

    • Professional support

    • Lawscot Wellbeing

    • Lawscot Sustainability

  • News and events

    • News and events

    • Law Society news

    • Blogs & opinions

    • CPD & Training

    • Events

  • Qualifying and education

    • Qualifying and education

    • Qualifying as a Scottish solicitor

    • Career support and advice

    • Our work with schools

    • Funding your education

    • Social mobility

  • Research and policy

    • Research and policy

    • Research

    • Influencing the law and policy

    • Equality and diversity

    • Our international work

    • Legal Services Review

    • Meet the Policy team

  • For the public

    • For the public

    • What solicitors can do for you

    • Making a complaint

    • Client protection

    • Find a Solicitor

    • Frequently asked questions

    • Your Scottish solicitor

  • About us

    • About us

    • Contact us

    • Who we are

    • Our strategy, reports and plans

    • Help and advice

    • Our standards

    • Work with us

    • Our logo and branding

    • Equality and diversity

  1. Home
  2. For members
  3. Journal Archive
  4. Issues
  5. September 2007
  6. Meet the Committee: Cameron Ritchie

Meet the Committee: Cameron Ritchie

Profile of In-house Lawyers Group committee member
17th September 2007

Work history

Two years’ apprenticeship in Wright & Crawford in Paisley, followed by 33 years in the Procurator Fiscal Service as a depute procurator fiscal, senior depute procurator fiscal, assistant procurator fiscal, procurator fiscal and now area procurator fiscal. I have worked in Ayr, Glasgow, Hamilton, Dundee, Stirling and Alloa, and Fife (as well as two or three weeks in Stranraer and a day in Dunoon). I now appear to spend about 50% of my time in Edinburgh.

What’s the best thing about your job?

Decision-making. Being a member of the Procurator Fiscal Service demands constantly making decisions with the pressure of having to make sure that you get them right. I appreciate that not everyone enjoys this and that the majority of the legal profession provide advice for other people to make decisions. I suppose it is that sort of characteristic that makes people want to do my job.

What was your worst experience and what did you learn from it?

Like most people I tend to and indeed try to forget the painful experiences and remember only the good ones. My worst experiences have been at the hands of the media and part of me considers that it is a little bit sad that I should allow bad and sometimes malicious reporting to get to me, but I think that everybody who has to deal with the media has that experience at some time. I have learnt to live with it to some extent and there is no doubt that over the years

I have become much more proficient at dealing with the media.

What external bodies/ organisations are you involved with?

Apart from the Law Society of Scotland, I am a member of the Society of Solicitor Advocates and the Forensic Pathology Society.

What do you do at weekends?

Household shopping, golf and walking.

What are the benefits of being on the Society’s Council or committees?

Principally becoming engaged in work that I would not normally become engaged in. It also allows me to make better and further contacts with other members of the profession.

Who’s your hero and why?

At my age it is probably not a good idea having a hero. Since by this time I’ve realised that there are very few people who do not have feet of clay, I think I would simply say that I have now accepted that everyone has different talents from everybody else. Hero worship is a form of envy and it is not a good idea to have envy in your later life.

If you weren’t a lawyer what would you have been?

A sports commentator.

Share this article
Add To Favorites
https://lawware.co.uk/

In this issue

  • TUPE: stay your hand
  • Nothing new under the sun
  • ABS - Actual Benefit Soon?
  • A chance to succeed?
  • Killing in company
  • Longer arm of the law
  • Agents... a commercial view
  • Bad language
  • Remote gambling - all bets off?
  • What makes a team?
  • Managing the fraud risk
  • Duties to the court
  • Copycats: another nine lives?
  • Activity in the courts
  • Invoking the UCCJEA
  • The men in black
  • Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
  • Website reviews
  • Book reviews
  • Big names, big issues for annual conference
  • Meet the Committee: Cameron Ritchie
  • Contaminated land - where are we now?

Recent Issues

Dec 2023
Nov 2023
Oct 2023
Sept 2023
Search the archive

Additional

Law Society of Scotland
Atria One, 144 Morrison Street
Edinburgh
EH3 8EX
If you’re looking for a solicitor, visit FindaSolicitor.scot
T: +44(0) 131 226 7411
E: lawscot@lawscot.org.uk
About us
  • Contact us
  • Who we are
  • Strategy reports plans
  • Help and advice
  • Our standards
  • Work with us
Useful links
  • Find a Solicitor
  • Sign in
  • CPD & Training
  • Rules and guidance
  • Website terms and conditions
Law Society of Scotland | © 2025
Made by Gecko Agency Limited