Professor Fiona Raitt

“Fiona Elizabeth Raitt, who has died 68, was born in the spring of 1956 in Perth, a community that was, like so many others, still negotiating its post-war identity. Those early years of austerity yielded within her an unwavering dedication to justice for voices that too easily go unheard.

“In 1978, Fiona graduated from Edinburgh University with a Bachelor of Laws. By 1983, in her mid-20s, she was a founding partner of an explicitly feminist law firm in Dundee, Wilson & Raitt. A decade later, in 1993, she took up an academic post at Dundee University as director of the diploma in professional legal practice. In 2005, Fiona was promoted to professor of evidence and social justice, a title that aptly conveyed her core interests and concerns. Her early retiral from the university came in 2014.”

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