CURRICULUM  VITAE

 

ROBIN  MACLEAN  WEBSTER

MBE RD BA(Cantab) FCIArb

 

 

Course Director, Commonwealth Programme for Legislative Drafters

in Caribbean Countries from January 2007

 

 

b. 22.4.1940; m., Janice Helen Reid; 2 daughters.

 

Education:     Fettes College, Edinburgh;

                   Christ's College, Cambridge University (BA (Nat Sciences) 2:1).

 

Solicitor (Scotland), 1966; Notary Public, 1970;

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 1992.

 

Honours         Member, Order of the British Empire (MBE), 1992,

for services to the judiciary in Tonga;

                   Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (RD).

 

Partner, Haddow & McLay, Solicitors, Glasgow, 1968-70;

 

Deputy Secretary, Law Society of Scotland. 1970-76;

Secretary, Scottish Lawyers' European Group, 1971-77;

 

Office of the Solicitor to Secretary of State for Scotland, 1976-88

          drafting statutory instruments, Civil Service SI Drafting Course;

seconded as Legal Draftsman, Seychelles Government 1980-82

          i/c full-time legislative drafting of all types of legislation;

Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman, Lord Advocate's Department, 1982-83

          full-time drafting of Scottish statutes at Westminster &

          legal advice work for Lord Advocate (then Lord Mackay of Clashfern);

Senior Parliamentary Counsel, Kenya Government, 1985-86

          full-time legislative drafting for Kenya Parliament;

 

Attorney-General, Tuvalu, South Pacific, 1986-88

          including drafting legislation & drafting Tuvalu Trust Fund Treaty;

 

Judge of the Supreme Court of Tonga, South Pacific, 1988-91

          including constitutional cases.

 

Temporary Sheriff, Scotland, 1991-96;

Part-time Industrial Tribunal Chairman, 1991-94;

Legal Consultant, Overseas Development Administration, 1992-95.

 

Full-time Employment Tribunal Chairman, Edinburgh, 1994-2003;

Part-time Employment Tribunal Chairman, Edinburgh 2003-4;

 

Chief Justice of Tonga, 2004 - 2006

          including several constitutional cases & advice on drafting in Law Committee.

 

Course Director, Commonwealth Programme for Legislative Drafters in Caribbean Countries from January 2007

 

Publication     Professional Ethics & Practice for Scottish Solicitors  (1976,-84,-96)

 

Other activities:

 

Royal Naval Reserve, 1962-90; Lt Commander (Rtd); Ship Command Cert 1973;

Chairman, Queensferry and District Unit Sea Cadet Corps, 1994-2000.

 

Hon. Secretary, Royal Scottish Pipers' Society, 1973-76.

 

Elder, Palmerston Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh.

 

Recreations:   bagpipe playing and piobaireachd; Scottish dancing; reading; walking; France.

 

 

Addresses:

 

35 Queen’s Crescent

Edinburgh

EH9 2BA

 

e-mail: rmwebster@btinternet.com

 

phone:          0044 (0)131 667 8062