Craig is a Partner at Pinsent Masons LLP.  He is qualified in Scotland and England & Wales. As a solicitor-advocate in both jurisdictions he has rights of audience in all courts, civil and criminal, up to and including the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Craig’s practice covers a wide range of areas, from planning to pensions, insolvency to IP, environmental to employment, regulatory to contracts and all points in between. He was the first solicitor-advocate in Scotland to be appointed to the rank of Q.C. and is Convener of the Law Society of Scotland Supreme Courts Training Course (Civil).

Craig won Solicitor Advocate of the Year category in The Law Society Excellence Awards 2012.

Craig is Vice Chairman (Scotland) BICBA.

Robert is General Counsel of the Damovo Group, an international group providing Enterprise Telecommunications Services, with local operating subsidiaries throughout Europe and working in 116 countries worldwide.

An experienced corporate lawyer and company secretary, Robert has had a varied career as a partner and consultant in corporate firms throughout Scotland, in a financial services provider and in a tech company.  He has been a member of the Law Society’s Banking and Company Law Committee since 1987 and has also served on other Society committees.

Outside Business Law and commerce, Robert has an interest in Ecclesiastical Law, being a Member of the Legal Questions Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the most senior advisory committee to the Church on all legal matters.

Being an in-house lawyer, he lives daily with the effects of the advice which he gives – something which every lawyer should have to do.

Lord Tyre was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Courts in May 2010.

Between 1980 and 1983 he lectured in law at Edinburgh University.  He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1987 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 1998.  He served as a part-time Scottish Law Commissioner between 2003 and 2009.  In 2007 he was elected president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE).   In 2010 he was awarded a CBE for services to the administration of justice in connection with his work with the CCBE. 

Lord Tyre is currently a commercial judge in the Court of Session.  He is a member of the Scottish Civil Justice Council and of the Judicial Council for Scotland, and is one of the representatives of the latter Council on the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary.  He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law in Trier, Germany.