Catriona Mary Grant is a former co-chair and former women's officer of the

Scottish Socialist Party The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; gd, Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; sco, Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scotland. The party was founded in 1998. It c ...

. She was instrumental in the split from the CWI international which established the SSP during the "Scottish Debate" of the late-90s. She was the chair of the Edinburgh Old Town Community Council and an active member of Save Our Old Town. She is also an active campaigner for

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against

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and sexual exploitation. In 2008, she was nominated as a "local heroine" in

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's national survey, conducted for international women's day.

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She was one of several SSP members who gave evidence during the Sheridan libel trial co-chairing the meeting of 9 November, which became a pivotal point in the trial She was also a witness at the subsequent perjury trial

HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan ''Her Majesty's Advocate v Thomas Sheridan and Gail Sheridan'' was the 2010 criminal prosecution of Tommy Sheridan, a former Member of the Scottish Parliament and his wife Gail Sheridan for perjury in relation to the earlier civil case '' Sheridan ...

. She works as Senior Social Worker in Edinburgh, and was one of the co-ordinators on the GIRFEC project.

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