Brenda Scott

Ross High School
Tranent, East Lothian

Brenda gained a law degree from Edinburgh University before joining a law firm to complete her training. During her career she has become an expert in commercial law and has given legal advice on some of the largest business deals and projects in Scotland. Brenda is now a partner with the major law firm Brodies. (more)

Greenwood Academy

Irvine, Ayrsire

Angela Thomson

Angela enjoyed French so much at school that she took a degree in Law & French at Glasgow University. She spent the 3rd year of her degree at the Université de Savoie in the French Alps where she made friends from all over the world. Angela has an ambition to work for the United Nations or the European Union and is well qualified to do so because she is fluent in two languages and holds a law degree from a Scottish University which is very highly thought of in other countries.

Lynn Welsh

St Aiden's High School
Wishaw

Lynn uses her great knowledge of the law to help disabled people - a group who often face unfair treatment. She led the Scottish Legal Affairs section at the Disability Rights Commission, a body which helped disabled people participate fully as equal citizens. As part of her work, Lynn takes on test cases in the disability discrimination field for disabled people, and provides specialist advice and training across Scotland. She studied law at Aberdeen University.

Denise West

Denise graduated with a law degree from the University of Edinburgh but has since chosen an unusual career path.  She is now a well-known name on the Scottish newspaper scene.  As an advertising director of a national newspaper group she has an extremely tough job.  However, Denise has lots of energy, talent and confidence, all of which have helped impress many in the world of media and marketing.  Most important of all, she gets results in a very competitive sector.

Richard Whyte

Broxburn Academy

West Lothian

Richard has enjoyed a remarkable career. He has been an electrician, a student at Edinburgh University, a practising solicitor and more recently a Solicitor Advocate presenting important cases in court. In addition, he has many interests away from the law including reading, cinema and watching Hibs play football. Indeed, Richard founded and edited a Hibs fanzine!

David Will

Brechin High School

Angus

Hamish Wilson

Dunoon Grammar

Argyll & Bute

Tom Winsor

Grove Academy
Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Tom studied law at Edinburgh University and completed his apprenticeship with the Dundee law firm Thorntons. He practised for a year doing mainly litigation in Dundee Sheriff Court before taking a postgraduate Diploma in Petroleum Law at Dundee University. Tom then worked in Edinburgh with Dundas & Wilson and in 1984 moved to London where his growing reputation led to important work in the energy and transport sectors.  In 1999 Tom was appointed by the Government as Rail Regulator - the youngest appointee to one of the five principal economic regulator posts in the UK - and over the next five years spent a lot of time dealing with Cabinet ministers and the national media. In that time, he reformed the legal and economic matrix for the railway industry, handled four multi-fatality rail crashes and the collapse of Railtrack, fought off political assaults from all angles, and wrote Network Rail a cheque for £22.2 billion for the funding of the national railway. At the time, the BBC described him as "one of the most powerful men in Britain". Tom is now a partner with top global law firm White & Case, working on projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the United States as well as the UK.". (more)