Appointed since 2025

QUALIFICATIONS

• Appointed Circuit Judge (full time judicial appointment), January 2016
• Appointed Assistant Judge Advocate General (full time judicial appointment), 2010
• Appointed Fee Paid Legal Chairman of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal Scotland, 2009
• Admitted to the Faculty of Advocates as Scottish Advocate, 2009
• Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Lincoln’s Inn), 1991
• Attended Professionally Qualified Officers Course at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1992
• Bar Vocational Course – Barrister at Law, 1990 – 1991
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B Hons) Class 2:2, 1987 – 1990

BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE

• Circuit Judge (Deputy Resident Judge), Ipswich Crown Court, 2020 – 2025;
• Circuit Judge, Chelmsford Crown Court, 2016 – 2020;
• Assistant Judge Advocate General, Resident Judge, Military Court Centre, Germany, 2013 – 2016;
• Assistant Judge Advocate General, Resident Judge, Colchester Military Court Centre, UK, 2010 – 2013;
• Legal Chairman of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal under the War Pension Scheme and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, Scotland, January 2009 – December 2009;
• British Army Legal Services Officer, 1992 – 2009 Retired as a Lieutenant Colonel;
• Cadetship Officer Army Legal Corps, 1989 – 1992.