Lord Coulsfield
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One of the judges who presided over the Lockerbie trial, the Rt Hon Lord Coulsfield, has died, aged 81.
As John Taylor Cameron, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1960, and took silk in 1973. He served as Keeper of the Library from 1977 to 1987.
On being appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1987, he took the judicial title, Lord Coulsfield. He sat with Lords Sutherland and MacLean at Kamp van Zeist in the Netherlands when Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
A service for Lord Coulsfield will be held at St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh on March 8 at 2pm, all friends are invited. A cremation will be held thereafter in private.
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