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19 Jan 00
The Right Honourable Lord Cullen, the Lord Justice-Clerk, is to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) from the University of Dundee.
Dundonian Lord Justice-Clerk to be honoured Lord Cullen will be among other prominent figures from the disparate worlds of broadcasting, science and the arts expected to receive the honorary degree of LLD from the University of Dundee at their millennium graduations in July.
A Dundee man himself, he graduated MA from St Andrews before taking an LLB at Edinburgh and was first called to the Bar in 1960. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1973 and served as Advocate-depute from 1978 to 1981. Chairman of the Medical Appeal Tribunal from 1977 Lord Cullen has served as Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Session since 1986. In 1997 he was appointed Lord Justice-Clerk becoming the second most senior judge in Scotland.
Lord Cullen first came to the public's attention in 1988 when chairing the inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster and again in 1996 when chairman to the inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School.
University of Dundee Principal, Dr Ian Graham-Bryce: "It is a pleasure that the University is able to honour Lord Cullen, a Dundee man himself and a highly respected and distinguished lawyer. His work in Scotland has become well known internationally though his role as Chairman to two exceptionally poignant and influential inquiries."/ends
