NEWS: New Queen's Counsel appointments - Simon Collins and Lorna Drummond

Posted On: 30 August 2011

The Murray Stable is delighted to offer congratulations to members Simon Collins and Lorna Drummond upon their appointments as Queen's Counsel.

Simon Collins is a former law centre solicitor who specialises in public law and human rights. He called to the Bar in 1995 and has acted in many of the leading Scottish cases in these areas in recent years. He has appeared twelve times in the House of Lords, three times in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, twice in the United Kingdom Supreme Court (and once by way of written submission for an Intervener), and in many high profile cases before the courts in Scotland at all levels. He has also acted in successful litigation before the European Court of Human Rights.

Formerly Assistant Scottish Parliamentary Counsel and Assistant Legal Secretary to the Scottish Law Officers, Lorna Drummond called to the Bar in 1998. She has developed a wide practice in administrative and constitutional law, immigration, extradition, mental health, planning and commercial law. From 2002 to 2007 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 Scottish Bar in January 2009 and took up appointments as Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Government and Part Time Sheriff. She was appointed ad hoc Advocate Depute in 2010 and to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Preferred Panel of Counsel in 2011.