Alastair Campbell, Lord Bracadale

Alastair Peter Campbell, Lord Bracadale, QC is a Scottish advocate and Senator of the College of Justice. Campbell was born on 18 September 1949 in Skye, Scotland, to Rev. Donald Campbell and Margaret Campbell, although his family moved to Edinburgh when he was just two years old, where he was brought up. He was educated at George Watson’s College, and took an M.A. at the University of Aberdeen. He worked initially as an English teacher, at Vale of Leven Academy in Dunbartonshire, between 1973 and 1975 before returning to university to study law at the University of Strathclyde. Campbell was admitted as a solicitor in 1979 and entered the Procurator Fiscal service as a prosecutor. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1985,...