Sheriff Alastair L Stewart, QC

Career: tutor Faculty of Law Univ of Edinburgh 1963-73, standing jr counsel Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements 1968-70, advocate depute 1970-73; Sheriff: South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway at Airdrie 1973-79, Grampian, Highland and Islands at Aberdeen 1979-90, Tayside, Central and Fife at Dundee 1990-2004; temp judge Supreme Courts of Scotland 1996-, interim Sheriff Princ Lothian and Borders, Glasgow and Strathkelvin 2005; govr Robert Gordon's Inst of Technol 1982-90; hon prof Sch of Law Univ of Dundee 2001-; chm: Grampian Family Conciliation Serv 1984-87, Scottish Assoc of Family Conciliation Servs 1986-89; memb Judicial Studies Ctee 2000-04; ed Scottish Civil Law Reports 1992-95

Books and Publications: The Scottish Criminal Courts in Action (1 edn 1990, 2 edn 1997), Macphail's Sheriff Court Practice (jt ed, 2 edn, vol 1 1998, vol 2 2002), Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia of the Laws of Scotland (Evidence reissue, 2006)