Fourteen appointees named for shrieval bench

Eleven new sheriffs and three sheriffs have been named following this year's recruitment exercise by the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.

Three of the sheriffs appointed will serve in Glasgow: Gerard Bonnar, formerly a Scottish Government solicitor and currently a resident summary sheriff in Glasgow; Brian Cameron, also a summary sheriff, formerly a commercial litigation partner with Macdonalds and then Morton Fraser; and Gerard Considine, solicitor advocate and a partner in Fitzpatrick & Co.

Two will sit in Grampian, Highland & Islands. Robert Frazer, advocate and previously a partner with Drummond Miller, solicitors, is posted to Inverness, and Gordon Lamont, an advocate since 1999, to Stornoway and Lochmaddy.

Kenneth Campbell QC, currently a part time tribunal member hearing both tax and mental health cases, and Douglas Keir, solicitor advocate and accredited specialist in personal injury with Weightmans, are both appointed for Lothian & Borders, sitting in Edinburgh.

In South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway, Anthony McGlennan, a legal director with Addleshaw Goddard, will sit in Stranraer, and Linda Nicolson, a summary sheriff since 2017 and previously in practice in her own solicitor firm, will sit in Hamilton.

Tayside, Central & Fife sees Alison McKay, a floating summary sheriff since 2017, before which she was a partner with AC Miller & Mackay, appointed to Kirkcaldy, and Keith Peter O'Mahony, a career prosecutor who qualified as solicitor advocate and in 2018 became a summary sheriff, appointed to Falkirk.

The three summary sheriffs are Adrian Fraser, solicitor advocate and senior depute fiscal, who will sit in Edinburgh; Siobhan Connelly, a solicitor and since 2014 a judge of the First-tier Tribunal, who will sit in Ayr; and Neil Bowie, also a solicitor advocate and prosecutor, who will sit in Dundee.