Inquiry team
Lord Weir
The Chair
The Hon. Lord Weir (Robert Weir) was appointed Chair to the Eljamel Inquiry on 29 February 2024.
He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in July 1995. He served as an Advocate Depute between 2005 and 2008, was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2010, and became a floating sheriff of South Strathclyde Dumfries and Galloway in April 2015. He took up a position as a resident sheriff at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in April 2018, sitting as one of the specialist sheriffs in the All Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court.
Lord Weir was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in April 2020, having sat as a temporary judge of the Court of Session from March 2017.
Jamie Dawson KC
Senior Counsel to the Inquiry
Jamie Dawson KC has been appointed as Senior Counsel to the Inquiry. Jamie was called to the Bar in 2004 and appointed Queen’s (King’s) Counsel in 2020.
Jamie is an experienced advocate in the field of civil law and public inquires. His civil work has focussed on a wide variety of medical and dental negligence cases, personal injury law, as well as trust law and commercial law. Alongside his practice in fatal accident inquiries, he was instructed in the Penrose Inquiry (a Scottish Inquiry) on behalf of a group of patients and a charitable body (2011-2015) and the Infected Blood Inquiry (a UK Inquiry) on behalf of a group of around 300 infected and affected core participants as well as two charitable bodies (2018-2024). He has acted as Senior Counsel to the UK Covid Inquiry (a UK Inquiry) (2022-date), leading in that Inquiry in its module on governmental decision-making in Scotland.
Alex Price-Marmion
Junior Counsel to the Inquiry
Alex Price-Marmion has been appointed as Junior Counsel to the Inquiry. Alex was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2002 and to the Scottish Bar in 2011.
Alex has experience in both civil and criminal law. She has conducted cases dealing with clinical negligence, serious road traffic head injuries and injuries to children among a wide range of personal injury cases. She has been instructed in serious criminal cases and was appointed as an Advocate Depute in Crown Office from 2022 to 2024. Alex has particular experience in cross-examining expert witnesses and in taking evidence from vulnerable witnesses.