John Douglas Fairley, Lord Fairley

John Douglas Fairley, Lord Fairley is a Senator of the College of Justice and a QC in Scotland. He was appointed as a Senator in November 2019.[1]

The Honourable

Lord Fairley

QC
Senator of the College of Justice
Assumed office
2020
Nominated byNicola Sturgeon
As First Minister
Appointed byElizabeth II
Personal details
Alma materGlasgow
ProfessionAdvocate

Career

He was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School and University of Glasgow School of Law and became an advocate in 1999.[2] He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2012, nominated by then-First Minister Alex Salmond.

In 2018, he made the news in representing Transport Initiatives Edinburgh in the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry, with his remarks reported by the BBC and the Times.[3][4] He also received some public attention for his work as advocate for Rangers Group.

Lord Fairley also served as Advocate Depute from 2011–2015.

Lord Fairley was formally installed as a Senator on 9 January 2020 in a ceremony in Court One of Parliament House, Edinburgh.[5]

In addition to co-authoring a book on contempt of court with Rosalind McInnes,[6] Fairley is a classically trained clarinetist.[7]

gollark: The main constraints for high-performance computer stuff *now* are heat and power, or I guess sometimes networking between nodes.
gollark: Also, for random real-world background, there are only two companies making (high-performance, actually widely used) CPUs: Intel and AMD, and two making GPUs: AMD and Nvidia. Other stuff (flash storage, mainboards, RAM, whatever else) is made by many more manufacturers. Alienware and whatnot basically just buy parts from them, possibly design their own cases (and mainboards for laptops, to some extent), and add margin.
gollark: You could just have them require really powerful nonquantum computers.
gollark: Quantum computing accelerates specific workloads, not just *everything*.
gollark: I suppose the future might have a lot of vertical integration going on.

References
  1. "Five New Court of Session Judges Named". Law Society of Scotland. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. "Douglas Fairley QC". Westwater Advocates. Advocates Library. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  3. "Edinburgh Tram Inquiry: Contract was 'poor deal for council'". BBC. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  4. Wade, Mike (24 May 2018). "'Ridiculous' tram agreement held Edinburgh to ransom, inquiry told". The Times. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  5. "TARDIS has landed, with Lord Fairley". Faculty of Advocates. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  6. McInnes, Rosalind; Fairley, John Douglas (2000). Contempt of Court in Scotland. Edinburgh: Fyfield Books. ISBN 978-1858112541.
  7. "Five New Senators of the College of Justice Appointed". Scottish Legal News. 21 November 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2020.


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