Brian Gill, Lord Gill

The Right Honourable
Lord Gill
Lord Justice Clerk
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 2001
Appointed by Elizabeth II
Preceded by Lord Cullen
Personal details
Born Brian Gill
25 February 1942 (1942-02-25) (age 69)
Glasgow
Spouse(s) Catherine Fox
Alma mater University of Glasgow,
University of Edinburgh
Profession Advocate
Religion Roman Catholic

Brian Gill, Lord Gill is Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, the country's second most senior judge, and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In February 2007 the Scottish Executive announced that Lord Gill was to head a review of Scotland's civil courts system.[1] The review panel's findings were published on 30 September 2009.[2]

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Education

Gill was born in Glasgow and educated at St. Aloysius' College, an independent Jesuit school in the city. He studied at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow (M.A., LL.B.), where he was a member of the Glasgow University Union and Dialectic Society, and at Edinburgh (Ph.D.), where he lectured in the Faculty of Law from 1964 until 1977. He was awarded Honorary Degrees by Glasgow University in 1998 (LL.D.), Edinburgh University in 2007 and the University of Abertay, Dundee in 2008 (LL.D.).

Career

He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1967 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1981. He was called to the English Bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1991. Lord Gill was an Advocate Depute from 1977 to 1979, and standing Junior Counsel to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1974–77), the Home Office (1979–81) and the Scottish Education Department (1979–81). He has been a member of the Scottish Legal Aid Board and the Scottish Valuation Advisory Council and Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal. Lord Gill was appointed a Judge in 1994, and was Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission from 1996 until 2001.[3] Lord Gill was appointed Lord Justice Clerk and President of the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session in November 2001.[3]

From 1987 to 1994 he was Keeper of the Advocates' Library and a Trustee of the National Library of Scotland. He is the author of The Law of Agricultural Holdings in Scotland.

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