THE HON LORD BRAID (PETER BRAID)

Lord Braid was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in November 2019, and installed on 23 June 2020. Lord Braid was elevated to the Inner House of the Court of Session on 1 July 2026.

He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1980 with first class honours, winning the Lord President Cooper prize for best student. He practised exclusively as a solicitor, becoming a partner in Morton Fraser in 1985 and a solicitor-advocate in 1995, dealing predominantly with commercial litigation in the Court of Session. 

He became a part-time sheriff in 2001 and was appointed a sheriff in 2005, sitting latterly in Edinburgh. In 2015, he was appointed as a designated personal injury sheriff in the All-Scotland Court, and as one of the first appeal sheriffs in the Sheriff Appeal Court, presiding over both civil and criminal cases.