Artificial Intelligence - A Seminar from Rt Hon Lord Pentland; Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland

The Rt Hon Lord Pentland has been a judge of Scotland’s Supreme Courts (the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary) since 2008. He has presided over a number of high-profile criminal trials as well as significant civil cases and has been an appeal court judge since 2020.

Between 2014 and 2018 he was chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, the country’s independent law reform body.

Lord Pentland was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1982 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1995. He served as an Advocate Depute (Crown prosecutor in the High Court) between 1991 and 1994.

In 1995, he was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland and held this office until the general election in 1997. He then returned to practice at the Bar, specialising in commercial law and public law.

Earlier in his career, Lord Pentland was standing junior counsel to the Department of the…