Lord Pentland will be sworn in as head of the Scottish judiciary on Monday, with the ceremony available to watch live on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service website from 10am.

A recording of the event will also be made available afterwards on the SCTS website for anyone unable to watch as it happens. 

During the ceremony, the royal warrant appointing Lord Pentland will be read to the court before he takes the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath.

Lord Pentland will then take his place on the bench and make a speech to the court before it adjourns.  

Lord Pentland has been a judge of Scotland’s Supreme Courts (the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary) since 2008. He has presided over a number of high-profile criminal trials as well as significant civil cases and has been an appeal court judge since 2020.

Between 2014 and 2018 he was chairman of the Scottish Law Commission.