| The Honourable Lord Bracadale | |
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| Senator of the College of Justice | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2003 |
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| Nominated by | Jack McConnell As First Minister |
| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alastair Peter Campbell 18 September 1949 Skye, Scotland |
| Spouse(s) | Flora Beaton |
| Children | One son, two daughters |
| Residence | North Berwick |
| Alma mater | Aberdeen, Strathclyde |
| Occupation | Judge |
| Profession | Advocate |
| Website | Judiciary of Scotland |
Alastair Peter Campbell, Lord Bracadale, QC is a Scottish advocate and Senator of the College of Justice.[1]
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Campbell was born on 18 September 1949[2] in Skye, Scotland, to Rev. Donald Campbell and Margaret Campbell, although his family moved to Edinburgh when he was just two years old, where he was brought up. He was educated at George Watson’s College, and took an M.A. at the University of Aberdeen.[2] He worked initially as an English teacher, at Vale of Leven Academy in Dunbartonshire, between 1973 and 1975 before returning to university to study law at the University of Strathclyde.[2]
Campbell was admitted as a solicitor in 1979[3] and entered the Procurator Fiscal service as a prosecutor. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1985,[1][2] called to the English Bar at the Inner Temple in 1990, and served as an Advocate Depute from 1990 until 1993. In 1995, he took silk and became Standing Junior Counsel to HM Customs and Excise. He was a member of the Criminal Justice Forum from 1996 to 1997, the Scottish Criminal Rules Council from 1996 to 1998, and of Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in 1997. In 1997 he was appointed Home Advocate Depute (Scotland's senior prosecutor) and remained in this post until 2001.
Campbell was junior counsel for the Crown (prosecutor) in the trial over the Lockerbie bombing at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands, under senior counsel former Lord Advocate Lord Boyd of Duncansby, and alongside Alan Turnbull, himself now a judge. Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was found guilty of the two hundred and seventy murders, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001. The conviction was upheld on appeal and the successful prosecution brought Campbell international prominence.
In 2003, Campbell was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a Judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, taking the judicial title, Lord Bracadale. Bracadale is a village on the Isle of Skye.
He was the judge in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan.
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