Kelvinside Academy Alumni - Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Craig Wright, James Greenlees, Mike Pittilo, John Charteris (Paperback)

Chapters: Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Craig Wright, James Greenlees, Mike Pittilo, John Charteris, Robert Browning, John Joy Bell, Sandy Johnstone, Leslie Stannard Hunter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alan Ferguson Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, QC, FRSE, PC (born 18 September 1944) is a Scottish lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Alan Rodger was born on 18 September 1944 in Glasgow, to Professor Thomas Ferguson Rodger and Jean Margaret Smith Chalmers, and educated at the independent Kelvinside Academy in the city. He studied at the University of Glasgow, graduating with an M.A., and at the University's School of Law, taking an LL.B.. He then studied at New College, Oxford - under, among others, David Daube, Regius Professor of Civil Law - where he graduated with an M.A. (by decree) and D.Phil., and was Dyke Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1969 to 1970 and a Fellow of New College from 1970 to 1972. He became an advocate in 1974 and was Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates from 1976 to 1979. He was a Member of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland from 1981 to 1984, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985. He was an Advocate Depute from 1985 to 1988 and was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1989, being promoted to Lord Advocate in 1992, at which time he became a life peer as Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, of Earlsferry in the District of North East Fife, and was appointed to the Privy Council. Rodger was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session, in 1995, and became Lord Justice General and Lord President in 1996. He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 2001, upon the retirement of Lord Cl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=182605