Jim Stephenson
Admitted: 2002
Jim Stephenson has been a solicitor since 1990 and a solicitor advocate since 2002. He is a member of the Society of Solicitor Advocates and also serves on the Law Society of Scotland's legal aid committee. The main area of practise has been the criminal law. He served as a police officer in London prior to becoming a lawyer. In 2005 he founded Thorley Stephenson with Mark Thorley. The firm currently has 10 lawyers providing representation in the civil and criminal courts in Scotland.
He has contributed to a Law Society paper on the Carloway Report expressing a view that if corroboration is to be abolished then it would not be safe for the Scottish Courts to rely on dock identification.He has also spoken at the Legal Aid Conference regarding the duties of a solicitor representing his client at a police interview.
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