The Rt Hon Lord Macfadyen (Chairman)*
Lord Macfadyen was appointed a judge in 1995 after serving for a year as a Temporary Judge.  He sits in the Second Division of the Inner House.  He is a graduate of Glasgow University (LLB) and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1969.

Lord Macfadyen was Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland (1977-79) and to the Scottish Home and Health Department (1982-83).  He served as an Advocate Depute from 1979-1982 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1983.  He was Counsel to the Inquiry into the Removal of Children from Orkney which sat from July 1991 to March 1992; served as Chairman of the Medical Appeals Tribunals from 1989 to 1995; and was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1992 to 1995.  Lord Macfadyen was one of five judges who heard the Lockerbie appeal at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands.

The Rt Hon The Lord Mackay of Drumadoon
Lord Mackay was appointed a Judge in March 2000. He previously served as Solicitor General for Scotland in 1995 and as Lord Advocate from 1995 to 1997. He was made a life peer in 1995 and became a Privy Counsellor in 1996.

Sheriff Charles Stoddart
Sheriff Stoddart has been Sheriff of Lothian and Borders since 1995. He was previously Sheriff of North Strathclyde at Paisley from 1988 to 1995. He was Director of Judicial Studies in Scotland from 1997 to 2000.

Sheriff Rita Rae QC
Sheriff Rae was appointed Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin in 1997. She was made a QC in 1992. She was appointed a Temporary Judge in February 2004. She is a member of the Parole Board, SACRO and the Scottish Association for the Study of Delinquency.

Mr Bill Gilchrist
Mr Gilchrist joined the Procurator Fiscal Service in 1976 He has served as Head of the Policy Unit at Crown Office and as Head of the Fraud and Specialist Services Unit. He was also Regional Procurator Fiscal in Paisley before his appointment as Deputy Crown Agent.

Chief Constable David Strang
Mr Strang has been Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Police since 2001. He was previously Assistant Chief Constable, Lothian and Borders Police, after eighteen years in the Metropolitan Police.

Mr Alex Prentice
Mr Prentice, until his recent appointment as an Advocate Depute, was a solicitor with McCourts Solicitors and former President of the Edinburgh Bar Association.  He is a member of the Criminal Law, Human Rights and Rights of Audience committees of the Law Society of Scotland.

Ms Valerie Stacey QC
Ms Stacey was called to the Bar in 1987 and took silk in 1999.  She served as Chair of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal from 1987 to 1993, and Advocate Depute from 1993 to 1996 and as a Temporary Sheriff from 1997 to 1999. She was elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in November 2004.

Mr Jim Dickie
Mr Dickie has been Director of Social Work at North Lanarkshire Council since 1996. (Past President of Association of Directors of Social Work)

Councillor Eric Jackson
Councillor Jackson is Chair of the Social Work Committee of East Ayrshire Council, is COSLA spokesperson on social work, is a Justice of the Peace and is a member of the Visiting Committee at HMP Kilmarnock.

Ms Bernadette Monaghan
Ms Monaghan has been Director of Apex since March 2002. She was a member of the Children’s Panel for 9 years. She is on the Board for Families Outside, is secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the Scottish Association for the Study of Delinquency and is a member of the Visiting Committee at HMYOI, Polmont.

Ms Kaliani Lyle
Ms Lyle is Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Scotland. She was a leading anti-apartheid campaigner and Chief Executive of the Scottish Refugee Council.

Mr David McKenna
Mr McKenna was appointed Chief Executive of Victim Support Scotland in 2001 having previously been Principal Officer of Victim Support Strathclyde from 1986 to 1993 and Director of Operations of Victim Support Scotland from 1993 to 2000.

Professor Neil Hutton
Professor Hutton’s main research interest is in sentencing and he is co-Director of the Centre for Sentencing Research at the University of Strathclyde. He is a leading member of the team which has developed the Sentencing Information System for the High Court in Scotland. He is a board member of SACRO.

Professor Chris Gane
Professor Gane has held the Chair of Scots Law at Aberdeen since 1994, prior to which he was Professor of Law at the University of Sussex. His research interests are Domestic Criminal Law and Procedure, International Criminal Law and Human Rights.

Mrs Sue Brookes
Mrs Brookes has been Governor at HMI Cornton Vale since July 2002. She was previously Deputy Governor at HMP Glenochil from 1998 - 2002, and has held various other posts in the Scottish Prison Service.

Alan Quinn, Secretary

Kay McCorquordale, Solicitor

Diane Machin , Principal Researcher

Rona Tatler, Assistant Secretary

Taryn Forrest, Office Manager