Topic summary
Lord Kilbrandon
Extracted from the Wikipedia article James Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon.
Judicial career
Shaw was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1932 and was appointed its dean in 1957. After his military service in the Second World War, he was nominated a Queen's Counsel in 1949. He was Sheriff of Ayr and Bute from 1954 and subsequently Sheriff of Perth and Angus in 1957. Two years later, he became a Senator of the College of Justice and Lord of Session, choosing the judicial courtesy titleLord Kilbrandon. Shaw chaired the Scottish Law Commission in 1965. He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary on 4 October 1971 and received the traditional life peerage as Baron Kilbrandon, of Kilbrandon, in the County of Argyll. In the same year he was sworn of the Privy Council.