| The HonourableLady Drummond | |
|---|---|
| Senator of the College of Justice | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2022 | |
| Nominated by | Nicola Sturgeon As First Minister |
| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | Glasgow University University of Cambridge |
| Profession | Advocate |
Lorna Allison Drummond, KC (born 19 December 1967) is a lawyer, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, and the Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal in the Territories of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. She is a former crown counsel of Ascension Island, in which role, she advised the government on criminal and civil matters.
She was appointed to the Court of Session in May 2022.
Career
Drummond was called to the bar in 1998. She took silk in 2011.
As crown counsel of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, she was the only qualified lawyer on the island, working in a legal system which relies almost entirely on lay magistrates, lay advocates and lay prosecutors.
On Ascension Island, Drummond organised a "Faculty of Advocates' MiniTrial", which required her to adapt two Scots law cases with "references to local features and places on Ascension" for a case involving an assault which led to severe injury, and involved a knife and the possession of the drug ecstasy with intent to supply.
In 2013, Drummond joined Axiom Advocates, primarily working in public law. In 2015, Drummond was appointed as Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal in the Territories of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, having worked in the past on both Ascension Island and St Helena as crown counsel.
References
- ^ "Case Study: Lorna Drummond QC – Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland". judicialappointments.scot. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- New Judges Appointed, Judiciary of Scotland website, May 2022.
- ^ "Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC appointed to post on tropical island – Scottish Legal News". Scottish Legal. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- ^ "Axiom welcomes new member Lorna Drummond QC – Axiom Advocates". axiomadvocates.com. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- Living people
- Scottish King's Counsel
- 21st-century King's Counsel
- 21st-century Scottish judges
- 21st-century British women judges
- Scottish women judges
- Senators of the College of Justice
- People from Ascension Island
- Alumni of the University of Glasgow
- Scottish sheriffs
- 21st-century Scottish lawyers
- 1967 births
- Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- 21st-century Scottish women lawyers