Alan Turnbull, Lord Turnbull
- Alan Turnbull, Lord Turnbull
Alan Turnbull, Lord Turnbull is a Scottish judge, having been appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 2006.
Alan Turnbull attended Dunfermline High School and graduated from the University of Dundee in 1979.
He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1982 and took silk, becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1996. Initially he was in general practice at the Bar instructed in a range of civil matters and employment cases before the Industrial Tribunals. By 1988 he had come to be instructed as defence counsel in criminal cases and from then he has been mainly involved in criminal work and for some time specialised in fraud trials.
From 1995 to 1997 he served as an Advocate Depute appearing in the High Court of Justiciary and the Court of Criminal Appeal. In 1998 he was in private practice as senior counsel and in September that year was engaged as one of the two senior counsel leading the Crown team in the preparation for, and conduct of, the Lockerbie bombing trial, as well as appearing in the subsequent appeal proceedings. In February 2001 he was appointed as Principal Advocate Depute - a position he held until his return to private practice in January 2006.
During his time working as Crown Prosecutor, Alan Turnbull prosecuted Scotland's most difficult criminal cases including that of William Beggs known as the "Limbs in the Loch" murder. Other notable cases include Luke Mitchell who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Jodi Jones in Dalkeith and businessman Nat Fraser who was convicted of killing his wife Arlene Fraser in January 2003.
In February 2006 Alan Turnbull was appointed a Judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary becoming Scotland's youngest judge at the age of 47.
One of his first cases on the bench was to preside over the Tommy Sheridan libel case.
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