Three judges named to join Inner House
Lord Tyre, Lord Boyd of Duncansby and Lady Wise have been appointed to the First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session.
The appointments, which take effect from 5 January 2022, were recommended by the Lord President, Lord Carloway, and Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, and agreed to by Cabinet Secretary for Justice Keith Brown, as required to meet the business demands of the court.
Lord Tyre has served as a senator since May 2010 and sits as a commercial judge. He became an advocate in 1987 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1998. He served as a part-time Scottish law commissioner between 2003 and 2009, and in 2007 he was elected president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). He was awarded a CBE in 2010 for services to the administration of justice in connection with his work with the CCBE. A member of the Judicial Council for Scotland, he is one of its representatives on the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary.
Lord Boyd of Duncansby became a senator in June 2012. Admitted as an advocate in 1983, he was an advocate depute from 1993 to 1995 and held office as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1997 to 2000 and as Lord Advocate from 2000 to 2006, being responsible for the prosecution of the Lockerbie trial. He was made a life peer in 2006 and returned to practice as a solicitor advocate in 2007, joining Dundas & Wilson as a consultant and head of Public Law. In 2019, he was appointed Vice President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
Lady Wise was appointed a senator in February 2013. She qualified as a solicitor in 1989, then called to the bar in 1993 where she practised in civil work, specialising in family law. In 2005 she became Queen’s Counsel and from 2008 sat part time as a temporary judge until her permanent appointment. She was a judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal for three years until December 2018. She has served as one of the two Family Court judges in the Court of Session and is a member of the Hague Network of Judges dealing with International Child Abduction cases.