ICAS post for Dame Elish

 

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has appointed the former Lord Advocate, Dame Elish Angiolini, QC, to the chair of its discipline board.

Dame Elish was admitted to the Faculty in 2008, and became principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford in 2012. She is also a visiting professor of law at Strathclyde University.

She succeeds Sheriff Principal James Taylor in the ICAS post, and said: “I look forward to contributing to the success of another renowned educational establishment, and supporting the important work carried out by the members of the Discipline Panel, the Appeal Panel and the Independent Examiner.”