Iain Armstrong, Lord Armstrong
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Biography
Iain G Armstrong, Lord Armstrong, QC, is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.
Legal career
Armstrong is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1986. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, he was standing junior counsel for the Department of Social Security. Thereafter, he served as a full-time Advocate Depute in the Crown Office until 2003, when he returned to private practice. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Legal Education in Scotland from 1995 to 1999 and a governor of Fettes College from 1991 to 2011. He was a member of the Advisory Panel to the School of Law of the University of Glasgow from 2009 - 2015. He served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 2008 to 2013. On 15 February 2013, he was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice.