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Court of Session
28/08/2008
Scottish Ministers have appointed Kenneth Macmillan Cumming to be Auditor of the Court of Session in place of Mr Neil Crichton who retires on September 25.
Mr Cumming is currently a partner and Head of Litigation at Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, Solicitors in Edinburgh.
The Auditor of the Court of Session is a statutory appointment made by Scottish Ministers after open competition.
Mr Cumming is a graduate of Edinburgh University. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1982 and has been a partner of Shepherd and Wedderburn since 2001.
The principal duty of the Auditor is to determine the expenses payable following civil litigation in the Court of Session. The Auditor may also be called on to fix the remuneration of liquidators and receivers and, at the request of parties, to fix fees in a range of legal work.
Mr Crichton has been Auditor since April 1998.