Michael Scott Jones, Lord Jones (18 February 1948 – 13 March 2016) was a Scottish

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. Jones was commissioned as an officer of the

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in 1968, and later qualified as a pilot. He flew

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aircraft in Germany. Jones was

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in Scotland in 1977 and in England and Wales in 1987. He was appointed a

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in 1989. He served as standing counsel to the Scottish Department of Trade and as an

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. From 2008 he was Senior Partner for the law firm Simpson & Marwick and head of its Dispute Resolution Department and its Advocacy Unit. In 1997, Jones was appointed part-time Chairman of the Police Appeals Tribunal and became an Ordinary Judge of Appeal in Jersey and in Guernsey in 2005. On 1 June 2012, it was announced he had been appointed a

, and he took up the post on 11 July 2012.Roll of the Court of Session for 5 July 2012
Jones was the Honorary President of the mooting society at the

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. Jones died suddenly in

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on 13 March 2016, aged 68.

References

1948 births 2016 deaths Alumni of the University of Dundee Scottish King's Counsel

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