LexFactor Battle judges announced Lord President to judge inaugural LexFactor battle of the bands

 Lord Carloway, Lord President

Lord Carloway was appointed as Lord President of the Court of Session in December 2015 and was installed as the new head of Scotland's judiciary in January 2016. He has been a Senator since February 2000 and was appointed to the Second Division of the Inner House in August 2008, before becoming Lord Justice Clerk in August 2012.

He is a graduate of Edinburgh University (LLB Hons) and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1977. He served as an Advocate Depute from 1986 to 1989 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. From 1994 until his appointment as a Judge he was Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates.

Lord Carloway is an accomplished musician who has played with the Faculty of Advocates band The Reclaimers.

 Siobhan Kahmann, Law Society Council member

Siobhan is the Law Society’s representative for Scottish solicitors outside of Great Britain, and is active on a number of Society committees. She is a practising solicitor in Brussels at a leading firm and has extensive experience advising on a range of competition and tech issues. Her practise includes providing wide-ranging and detailed advice on digital platforms and e-commerce in a competition context, in addition to music, media and net neutrality.

Siobhan also founded, manages and plays electric fiddle in The Hoggies, a Brussels-based Scottish ceilidh band. The band was established in 2011, by a group of enthusiastic international musicians with a love of Celtic music and an inspiration to make live ceilidh dances in Belgium available for everyone. The band has now played in multiple European countries, for a Belgian royal family birthday celebration, and recently played two of the Brexit ceilidhs organised by MEPs in Brussels, as covered in the news at the end of January 2020.

 Natasha Willicombe, Law Rocks London Co-chair

Natasha is a Director at Secretariat International based in the London office. Prior to joining Secretariat Natasha held senior positions within the Clerking teams at both Essex Court Chambers, and more recently Atkin Chambers where she spent 11 years.

Secretariat's professionals specialise in international arbitration, general commercial arbitration & litigation, forensic accounting, economic damages, construction and government contracting.

Secretariat International are headquartered in Atlanta and have offices in Birmingham, Boston, Bristol, Denver, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Toronto and Singapore.

A mother of two children, she is also an Ambassador to KidsOut (www.kidsout.org), a charity which gives disadvantaged children positive experiences to support them becoming future members of our society and workforce. Natasha is the third musketeer based in London who along with Nick and Damian helps pull all the gigs in London and anywhere west of the UK together. Natasha has been an enthusiastic attendee at more Law Rocks! gigs than she cares to recall, and has also judged our Gig in the UAE.

 Chris Trainer, Forrest Group Advertising Entrepreneur

Chris Trainer is the founder and Chief Executive of Forrest Group which has interests in Media, Property and has recently opened the first Radisson Red hotel in Glasgow.

In addition, he is Chairman of Ocean Outdoor Advertising.

Chris is a keen amateur musician himself and played guitar in American Dream in the 1980’s. He also has a record label joint venture with John McLaughlin (Forrest Boombox)