Roderick Francis Macdonald, Lord Uist is a Scottish retired judge. As a Senator of the College of Justice, he was a member of the Court of Session, Scotland's highest court.

Early life

Macdonald was educated at

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, a

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, and at the

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Faculty of Law. (

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Hons.). He was admitted to the

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in 1975.

Legal career

Macdonald served as an

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from 1987 to 1993, from 1990 as Home Advocate Depute. He was appointed

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in 1989. He was

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of England and Wales in 1997 (

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). From 1995 to 2001, he was Legal Chairman of the Pension Appeal Tribunals for Scotland, and from 1995 to 2000 was a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, and of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel from 1997–1999. He was appointed a Temporary Judge in 2001, and in 2006 was appointed a full-time judge of the

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and

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, Scotland's

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, as a

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. He took the judicial title ''Lord Uist'', sat in the

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, and retired on 1 February 2021. Prominent cases Macdonald has presided over included the 2006 trial of three of the race hate murderers of Kriss Donald.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macdonald, Roderick Francis Living people 1951 births Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish King's Counsel 20th-century King's Counsel Members of the Inner Temple

Uist "Uist" is a group of six islands and are part of the Outer Hebridean Archipelago, part of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. North Uist and South Uist ( or ; gd, Uibhist ) are two of the islands and are linked by causeways running via the isles ...

Members of the Faculty of Advocates People educated at St Mungo's Academy

Early life

Legal career

See also

References