Sheriff Stuart Reid appointed as temporary sheriff principal

The appointment is effective from 24 August 2026 when current Sheriff Principal Aisha Anwar becomes a senator of the College of Justice.

Sheriff Reid was appointed as a sheriff in Glasgow in 2011. He has been one of the three nominated commercial sheriffs at Glasgow for the last decade. In 2024, he was appointed as a judicial member of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. In 2025, he was appointed as an appeal sheriff in the Sheriff Appeal Court.

Sheriff Reid was admitted as a solicitor in 1991. He joined Maclay Murray & Spens in 1992 specialising in commercial dispute resolution and was assumed as a partner there in 2000.

He qualified as a solicitor advocate in 2000 and spent a year in Maclays’ London office where he gained experience of commercial litigation in the English High Court and county courts.