Retirals

Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, has today announced his intention to retire on 31 December 2025. Lord Hodge has served as a justice of the Supreme Court and the JCPC since 1st October 2013 and was appointed as deputy president in January 2020. Appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1996,

Some of the former partners of Coulters who retired in April 2021 and June 2022 have belatedly celebrated their retirement at the Royal Scots Club. Alastair Shepherd, Ross Mackay and Louise Williams between them had worked for Coulters and its parent firm, Henderson & Jackson WS and HBJ Gateley

Lord Boyd of Duncansby has retired from the bench following a distinguished career. He qualified as a solicitor in 1978, became an advocate in 1983 and took silk in 1995. He practised at Caesar & Howie from 1978 to 1982 and as an advocate from 1983 to 1997, building up a practice in civil and pa

Kenny Christine has retired from practice after 23 years at the bar. Kenny called to the bar in 2000 having worked at Thompsons Solicitors before calling. He specialised in personal injury law with a wide range of experience in most aspects of PI wok including RTAs, workplace accidents, workplace st

Lord Kitchin is to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the legal year, 29 September 2023. He became a Supreme Court Justice in October 2018, making him the fifth longest serving of the current justices.

As 2022 drew to a close, Allan McDougall Solicitors bid farewell to David Nicol, who retired from the firm at the end of December. Having joined the firm in 1984, he became a partner within a couple of years. After 32 years in this role, he stepped down from it in 2017 but remained with the firm in

Jonathan Mitchell KC, of Arnot Manderson Advocates, is to retire from practice after a long and distinguished career at the bar. He retires at the end of this year and his departure follows a notable success in the case of For Women Scotland for judicial review of the revised statutory guidance prod

Professor Margaret Ross will retire from the University of Aberdeen at the end of this month after 28 years of service. Professor Ross graduated from the university in 1979 and has spent her career there in various capacities. She became a part-time tutor in 1980 while she was working in legal pract