Lay Members

Dozie Azubike

Member of the Tribunal since December 2018. He is an offshore health and safety inspector. He was previously an adjudicator for the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA), a member of the Fitness to Practice committee of the General Optical Council (GOC) and a lay magistrate.

Paula Charlesworth

Member of the Tribunal since November 2018. Dr Paula Charlesworth is a registered dietitian with a PhD in nutrition and physiology, having worked in frontline NHS services, research and academia. Paula brings regulatory experience having served terms as a professional partner for the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service, sitting on their Fitness to Practise, Investigatory Committee and Appeals Panels. Paula is currently a Non Executive Director for Food Standards Scotland and Lead Visitor for the Health and Care Professions Council, Education and Training Committee, reviewing academic programmes for education providers.

Douglas Cochrane

Member of the Tribunal since November 2018. He has a professional background in the semiconductor industry as a quality manager before working as a commercial manager for a university spin out company. Since 2004 he worked with Strathclyde Police and Police Scotland in senior civilian posts, retiring in 2017. He has been a lay member of the Scottish Social Services Council Fitness to Practise Committee since Nov 2017.

John Duffy

Member of the Tribunal since December 2018. Having originally qualified as a civil engineer, John changed career in 1989 when he joined the Fire & Rescue Service. He has subsequently served in a variety of posts throughout the former Tayside area. During his career he also served as an official with the Fire Brigades Union, dealing with a broad range of topics including members discipline and grievance cases. He progressed through the union structure to eventually hold the post of Scottish Secretary. In this capacity, John was the lead FBU official during the merger of the previous eight fire services into the new single Scottish Fire & Rescue Service. In 2013 he was awarded an OBE in recognition of his contribution to the fire and rescue service. Latterly he was part of the services Transformation Directorate and authored a number of reports relating to the future development of the fire and rescue service in Scotland.

Edward Egan

Member of the Tribunal since June 2015. Edward Egan has held a varied number of posts within NHS Lothian throughout his 43 year career. He is a Registered Mental Health Nurse and Registered General Nurse and spent his early career within front line NHS Services. In the years that followed was an active member of the Confederation of Health Service Employees and later UNISON where he Chaired the Scottish Health Committee for more than a decade. From 2001 to 2012 he served as a member of the NHS Lothian Board as the Employee Director and in 2006 was appointed as NHS Lothian Board Vice Chair and Chair of Midlothian Community Health Partnership. He has served on numerous committees including the Finance and Performance Review Committee (2003-12); Healthcare Governance and Risk Management Committee (2001-12) and the Audit Committee (2001-12) until his retirement from the NHS in late 2012.

Julius Erolin

Member of the Tribunal since January 2014. He is an independent organisational development consultant focusing on intercultural competency, inclusive leadership and conflict management. He works with clients across sectors in the UK and the US. He was previously the Managing Consultant for EW Group based in London, and has held senior positions in public sector organisations in the US. Mr Erolin practised employment and discrimination law in the US and is a qualified mediator by the Minnesota Supreme Court. He has particular expertise in culture and conflict, and he has helped large public and private sector organisations work effectively with differences and conflict.

Professor Kay Hampton (FRSA, FHEA)

Member of the Tribunal since January 2013. She is a Professor of Communities and Race Relations and holds a PhD in Sociology (specialising in Human Rights, Equality and Diversity). She held senior academic positions at Glasgow Caledonian University (1994-2012), the University of Durban-Westville, SA (1987-1989). She was seconded to the Strategic Planning Department at Durban City Council, SA between 1989-1993 as Lead Researcher for the Town Planning Department. More recently she was a founding member of the National Confidential Forum (2013-2016), a member of the Children’s panel (2010-2012) and Lay Member, Council of the Law Society where she Chaired LSS Equality and Diversity Committee and served as a Member of the LSS, Regulatory Committee (2012-2013). She was Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission, (2008-2015), Chair/Deputy Chair of the UK the Commission for Racial Equality and Its Scottish Commissioner (2003-2006) and a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission UK (2005-2007). She was also a member of the Runnymede Academic Forum (2004-2006). Kay was the Scottish Chair and UK Board member of the BIG Lottery Fund (1997- 2004) and a member of the Wellcome Trust Funding Panel (2002-2004). She was a Non-executive Director, Scottish Prison Service (2018-2022) and served on the Audit Committee of PIRC. She is currently a Public Appointments Advisor for the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life (2012-) and is Patron of IARS (Research International Institute 2013-) and an editor of its Journal. She is a fellow of The Higher Education Academy and the RSA.

Paul Hindley

Member of the Tribunal since 2014. After retiring from a senior position in the Police Service in 2001, Paul has been a member of four other tribunals, acting in the role of chair in three of them. These included a Fitness to Practise Tribunal (FTP) and a Health Tribunal for the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and a Conduct Tribunal, for the the Northern Ireland Social Care Council. Service in each of these lasted for the two terms of four years each to which members are restricted. He was an Associate Outplacement Consultant for a major U.K. H.R. company for approximately ten years from 2024, assisting staff who had been made redundant from a range of organisations, through training in the completion of CVs, application forms and interview skills. He was a Lay Representative for the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency for nine years from 2013. He sits on another Solicitor Discipline Tribunal, and continues, from 2002, to be an Assessor for the Cabinet Office Customer Service Excellence Standard.

Dr. Kenneth Mitchell

Member of the Tribunal since January 2014. He was a General Surgeon and Lead Consultant for Surgery within Greater Glasgow & Clyde Board from 1986 until retirement in 2012. During this time he was appointed to numerous positions, including; NHS National Panel of Specialists; Commodity Advisory Panel (Scotland); Scottish Council Member of Association of Surgeons GB&I; and Chairman, St Vincent’s Hospice. Since 2012, he served for 7 years, as a Tribunal member on the Fitness to Practise Panel (subsequently the Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service) with the General Medical Council.

Christine Pacitti

Member of the Tribunal since November 2018. Christine qualified as a pharmacist in 1997 and is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. She has worked for both private and public sector organisations. Since October 2022, Christine is undertaking a research PhD. Since March 2016 she has been a member of the Additional Support Needs Tribunals Scotland. Formerly held a clinical pharmacist role within Mental Health and also,a senior clinical pharmacist role within the Mental Health and Learning Disability services within the NHS. She worked with the Mental Welfare Commission Scotland from 2011-2015 as a pharmacist visitor.

Martin Saville

Member of the Tribunal since January 2014. He has served in several Local Authorities since 1976, latterly as Head of Public Protection Services and previously as Head of Environmental Health and Principal Building Control Officer for the City and County of Swansea Council since his appointment in 1984. He retired from this post in November 2013 at that time being responsible for several front line services including; Environmental Health, Community Safety; Trading Standards; Building Control; Bereavement and Registration Services, Public Health, Pollution Control, Health Promotion and Licencing. He was a Chartered Surveyor and is also a lead assessor in an HR consultancy organisation.

Ian Shearer (Lay Members' Representative)

Member of the Tribunal since January 2014. He has over 25 years experience of policy work in a range of business and consumer organisations. Previously Director of Operational & Technical Affairs at the Scotch Whisky Association, he was Interim Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium in 2009-10 and 2011-12, as well as doing spells in his own consultancy and more recently in the consumer policy team at Citizens Advice Scotland. Since 2009 he has been a Non-Legal Member of the First-Tier Tax Tribunal. He is Chairman of the Friends of Kinneil, an award-winning local heritage group; was a Trustee of Sniffer - the Scottish sustainability and resilience knowledge broker - from 2008 to 2015; and is also a past Board member of the Scottish Business Crime Centre.

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