Kirsty McGrath

Kirsty is a qualified solicitor with extensive public sector law experience. After a number of years working as a reporter to the Children’s Panel, she joined the Scottish Government legal directorate in 1999, just as the Scottish Parliament was being reestablished. 

Kirsty worked on a number of groundbreaking pieces of legislation including the Gender Recognition Act 2004, the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 and the implementation of the Adult Support and Protection Act 2007. 

In 2013, Kirsty moved across to work on policy around mental health and incapacity law and developed specialist knowledge in this area. She was the Secretary to the Independent Review of Mental Health and Incapacity Law (the Scott Review) from 2019 to 2022. 

Following the conclusion of the Review, Kirsty jointly led the Mental Health and Incapacity law unit in the Scottish Government until taking early retirement at the end of 2024. 

Since leaving the Government Kirsty has been using her experience in the third sector. Amongst other matters she is a trustee of Forth Valley Advocacy, and Action in Mind, a Stirling based mental health charity.