Lesley Dowdalls graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 1986 and was a court practitioner in Ayrshire for 35 years. She is an accredited specialist in both child and family law. She has been a Legal Member of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland since 2004, and of the Additional Support Needs Tribunal since 2015, where she was also Lead Peer Reviewer.

Roderick Flinn graduated from Edinburgh University trained with an Edinburgh law firm. From 2009 to 2013 he was Head of Public Inquiries for the Scottish Government Legal Directorate. From 2013 to 2019 he was Legal Secretary to the Lord President of the Court of Session. In 2019 he was appointed a summary sheriff for Lothian & Borders at Edinburgh.

Charles Walls attended Glenrothes High School and graduated LLB Hons in 1994 from the University of Glasgow. After obtaining the DipLP he studied at the University of Michigan, graduating LLM in 1996. He qualified as a solicitor advocate (civil) in 2004. He is a contributing author to LexisPSL and from 2012 to 2019 lectured on the University of Strathclyde’s LLM in construction law.

Amel Elfallah is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. She trained and qualified as a solicitor with Thompsons, working in personal injury litigation. She was appointed as a Summary Sheriff in 2021, and as a member of the Scottish Sentencing Council in July 2022.

Robert More graduated from Edinburgh University in 2005. He qualified as a criminal solicitor advocate in 2012 before establishing Robert More and Company in 2013. He was appointed a part-time Sheriff in 2021 and since April 2022 has worked in that capacity in Tayside, Central and Fife.

The salary of a sheriff is £157,705 per annum.