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Former Pupil Biographies
Anna Poole QC, M.St. Oxon (1970 - current)
The Honourable Lady Poole
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Anna Poole and her three siblings were educated at Madras College. She
then went to Somerville and Magdalen Colleges at Oxford University where
she graduated with a First Class
Honours Degree in Law in 1991 and followed this with a postgraduate
Masters degree in 1993. She is the one of the four Poole siblings who
attended Madras College. The school archive site has records of her
involvement in Latin and Debating competitions and she won the Professor
Newnham Scholarship for Music in 1988. Anna Poole also took part in a number of
Theatrical productions.
She qualified as a solicitor in London in 1996 and then returned to
Scotland as a solicitor in 1997. In 1998 she became an advocate. |
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Her legal career continued with the following
appointments:
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Standing Junior Councel to the Scottish Government
(2002)
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Second Standing Junior (2009)
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First Standing Junior (2010)
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Took silk to become Queen's Councel (2012)
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Part time First Tier Tribunal Judge in the Social
Entitlement Chamber (2014)
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Judge of the Upper Chamber in the
Administrative Appeals Chamber (2018)
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Senator of the College in Justice in Scotland (2020)
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Chair of the public inquiry into the handling of
Coronavirus in Scotland (2021). She resigned from this post in
October 2022.
She also:
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Has been a Research Assistant and Tutor at Dundee
and Edinburgh Universities
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Chancellor for the Diocese of Edinburgh
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A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
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Co-author of 'A Practical Guide to Public Law
Litigation in Scotland'
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A contributor to 'Court of Session Practice'
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