Lorna A Drummond

Year Of Call

1998

Devil Masters

D.C. Rae; W. Totten; N. Stewart

Qualifications

LL.B. University of Glasgow, 1989; M.Phil. University of Cambridge, 1990; Dip. L.P. University of Edinburgh, 1991

Biography

Formerly Assistant Scottish Parliamentary Counsel and Assistant Legal Secretary to the Scottish Law Officers, Lorna called to the Bar in 1998.  She has developed a wide practice in public, planning and commercial law.  In 2002 she was appointed Standing Junior to the Home Department and instructed in immigration and human rights cases.  In 2007 she was appointed by the Foreign Office as Crown Counsel for a British Overseas Territory dealing with criminal, employment and human rights law.  She returned to practice at the Bar in January 2009 and took up appointments as Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Government and Part Time Sheriff.

Cases

Judicial Review:

Irvine v Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh 2004 SCLR (natural justice; clubs; right of reply; members)
Rooney v Strathclyde Police Board CSOH 2006 199 (duty to give reasons; quality of reasons)
Ho petitioners 2004 SC 1 (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; competency of judicial review; alternative remedy)

Planning:

SHBA v Aberdeen City Council 2002 GWD 13-447 (judicial review challenge to approval of Structure Plan)
Uprichard v Fife Council 2000 SCLR (Environmental Impact Assessments; local authorities powers, planning permission)

Immigration / Human rights:

Smith v Scott [2007] SC 345 (whether blanket ban on prisoners' voting rights incompatible with ECHR; reading down statutory provisions under section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998; Registration Appeal Court)
Esen v Secretary of State for the Home Department 2006 SC 555; 2006 GWD 21-459 (proper approach of decision-maker to plausibility of applicant's account of persecution)
Torabi v Secretary of State for the Home Department 2006 SC 567 (asylum seekers, right to fair trial; death penalty; Iran)
Elabas v Secretary of State for the Home Department 2004 SLT 1082 (additional grounds of appeal not before tribunal)

Employment / Human rights:

Larry Francis v Attorney General 2009 St Helena Court of Appeal (application of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and Human Rights Act 1998 to British Overseas Territories)

Commercial / Trust / Reparation:

Earl of Balfour, Petitioner (House of Lords) [2002] UKHL 42; 2003 SC (HL) 1 (statutory interpretation, law of entail)
Earl of Cawdor, Petitioner 2006 SLT 1070 (conflict of interest, removal of trustee)
Stannifer Developments Ltd v Clydeport Properties Ltd 2000 GWD 6-236
Rory Fraser v Alexander MacIver and another 2003 GWD 24-697 (reparation)

Appointments

Standing Junior Counsel to the Advocate General (2002-2007)
Panel Member of Scottish Parliament Bill Drafting Unit (2001-2007)
Crown Counsel, Ascension Island (2007-2009)
Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Government (2009 to date)
Part time Sheriff (2009 to date)

Further Information

Lorna undertook mediation training with Mediation Forum Ireland in 2006.