Scottish Law Commission Welcomes New Appointment

by Robin Pilgrim, LawAndTax-News.com, London

25 January 2006

Scotland's Minister for Justice, Cathy Jamieson on Tuesday announced the appointment of a new member to the Scottish Law Commission.

The new member is Professor George Gretton who is a qualified solicitor, a Writer to the Signet and a Notary Public.

He currently holds the Lord President Reid Chair of Law at the University of Edinburgh. His main interests lie in the fields of commercial law, property law, trusts, insolvency law, comparative law and legal history and he has published widely in all of these areas.

As a Commissioner, Professor Gretton will contribute to the formulation of Commission policy and to the preparation of discussion papers and reports to Government, as well as contributing to the leadership of the Commission and so helping to deliver its objectives.

He will also have specific responsibility for completion of the Commission's ongoing project on land registration, and for taking forward a new project on the assignation of and security over incorporeal moveables.

This appointment will be for five years and will run from May 1, 2006 to April 30, 2011.

The Scottish Law Commission, along with its counterpart for England and Wales, was set up by the Law Commissions Act 1965. Its function is to recommend reforms to improve, simplify and update the law of Scotland.

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