George_William_Penrose,_Lord_Penrose
George William Penrose, Lord Penrose
Scottish judge
George William Penrose, Lord Penrose, PC (born 2 June 1938),[1] is a Scottish judge (from 1990) and member of the Privy Council (from 2000) who sat in the Court of Session, the supreme civil court.
He qualified as a chartered accountant, was admitted to the bar as an advocate and was made Senior Counsel in 1978. Between 1988 and 1990 he worked in Crown Office, the prosecution service for Scotland. He was made Scotland’s first commercial judge in 1994 and was acknowledged as an expert in commercial law.[2] He chaired two major independent inquiries, establishing in each case complex authoritative narratives of events.