Angus Glennie, Lord Glennie


Angus James Scott Glennie, Lord Glennie, QC is a Senator of the College of Justice, and Principal Commercial Judge in the Court of Session, in Scotland.

Early life

Glennie was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1974. He was appointed a Bencher in 2007.

Legal career

Whilst at the English Bar, Glennie worked mainly in commercial and international arbitration before the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal. He took silk there in 1991, and the following year was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. Again, he practised mostly in commercial law, but also worked in other areas, such as judicial review and reparation. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in Scotland in 1998.
He was appointed to the Bench of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary in 2005, as a Senator of the College of Justice, with the judicial title, Lord Glennie. He worked originally as an Intellectual Property Judge, but became a Commercial Judge in 2007, and Principal Commercial Judge from January 2008. Following his Privy Council appointment on 11 July 2016, he was appointed to the 1st Division of the Inner House.

Personal life

In 1981, Lord Glennie married Patricia Jean Phelan, daughter of Andrew Phelan, a circuit judge originally from Clonmel in the Republic of Ireland.