Legal Career
Smith worked as Standing Junior Counsel to the Countryside Commission, before being appointed a Temporary Sheriff from 1995 to 1999, Chairman of the Scottish Partnership on Domestic Abuse from 1998 to 2000, and as an Advocate Depute from 2000 until her appointment in 2001 as a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, the Supreme Courts of Scotland, taking the judicial title, Lady Smith.
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