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HLS Executive Committee Members

Dr Oliver Aldridge: NHS Lothian: Edinburgh, Midlothian & East Lothian DTTO I and DTTO II, Board Member: Scottish Drugs Forum (www.sdf.org.uk), Trustee: Sorted Drug & Alcohol Addiction Recovery Edinburgh (www.sortedproject.co.uk).

Laura Irvine: DLA Piper: Honorary Treasurer of the Scottish Consortium on Crime & Criminal Justice.

Irene Kitson FCIPD: Justice of the Peace; Member of Justices Training and Appraisal Committee; Member of the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal; Consultant in Employment and Human Resource Management; Member of the Employment Tribunal; Member of the Parole Board Scotland.

Alan Mairs: Communications Officer, Sacro, Edinburgh.

Susan Matheson OBE: [retired Chief Executive, Sacro]; Non-Executive Board Member, Scottish Prison Service; Board Member, Phoenix Futures; Associate Member of the Scottish Consortium on Crime & Criminal Justice.

Di Moore: currently studying to go to the bar.

Richard Moore: Journalist.

Craig Murray, LL.B (Hons). LL.M, Dip.F.M.S. Advocate, Compass Chambers, Edinburgh. Member of the Health and Safety Lawyers’ Association; Associate Member of the Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice.

Prof Mike Nellis: Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in the Glasgow School of Social Work.

Dr Laura Piacentini: Reader in Criminology, University of Strathclyde; Associate Member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research

John Scott QC: Partner in Capital Defence Lawyers, Leith; Solicitor-advocate (criminal only): member of Council of Justice (London based Human Rights organisation); Associate Member of the Scottish Consortium on Crime & Criminal Justice.

Ms Marina Shaw: Manager of the Families Affected by Imprisonment (FABI) team. Qualified in law (Napier University) and social work (Edinburgh University) has worked with Circle since August 2005 and is a member of Together which aims to improve children’s rights.

Prof Richard Sparks: Prof Richard Sparks: Professor of Criminology, School of Law, University of Edinburgh and Co-Director Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research: Associate Member of the Scottish Consortium on Crime & Criminal Justice.

Prof Jackie Tombs:  Professor of Criminology and Social Justice, Director of the Institute for Society and Social Justice Research, Glasgow Caledonian University; Associate Member of the Scottish Consortium on Crime & Criminal Justice; Associate Member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Office Holders

Chairman:
John Scott

Secretary:
Susan Matheson

Treasurer:
Laura Irvine

Membership and Communication Secretary:
Alan Mairs

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