Three new members for SCCRC

Solicitor Carol Gammie, advocate Laura Reilly and consultant forensic psychiatrist Alex Quinn have been appointed as new members of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Ms Gammie trained with the Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service before practising criminal defence in Kilmarnock for a number of years, latterly as a partner of Allan Kerr Solicitors. She has recently completed five years' international practice at the United Nations in the Hague, initially with the office of legal aid and defence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and subsequently with the Office of the Prosecutor on the Radovan Karadzic case and on the retrial of Stanisic of Simatovic at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal tribunals (IRMCT).

Laura Reilly became a solicitor after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1983. She became an advocate in 2006 and practises principally in criminal law and family law.

Alex Quinn is a consultant forensic psychiatrist based in the Orchard Clinic, Edinburgh. He has responsibility for inpatients in a medium secure unit, and provides input to the Serious Offender Glasgow Service as well as acting as psychiatrist to Veterans First Point Lothian. He brings a knowledge of mental health, mental health legislation and the interface between mental illness and the law to the Commission.

The appointments, for four years, run from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2023 for Mr Quinn and Ms Reilly, and from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2023 for Ms Gammie.

The remuneration is £252 per day for a time commitment of four days per month. None of the appointees hold any other public appointments.