Lay Members

Member of the Tribunal since January 2024. Craig is a Senior Lecturer in Dispute Resolution and a former Trading Standards Officer with a specialism in consumer protection law. He provides dispute resolution teaching, research, training and consultancy at home and abroad, and is a qualified mediator and coach. Previous appointments include serving on two university courts, and various higher education committees. Until autumn 2023 he sat on two mediation organisation boards as a volunteer trustee, and previously served as a director of Citizens Advice Edinburgh.  He is a former member and convener of the Regulatory Committee of the Law Society of Scotland, serving until the end of 2021.

Member of the Tribunal since November 2018 and Lay Members' Representative since 2024. Dr Paula Charlesworth is a PhD registered dietitian, 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, Lead Visitor for the Health and Care Professions Council, Education and Training Committee and, lay panel member for the Fitness to Practice Committee for the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Douglas has served as a Tribunal member since November 2018. With a background as a quality manager in the semiconductor industry and experience as a commercial manager for a high-technology university spin-out, Douglas subsequently held senior civilian roles with Strathclyde Police and Police Scotland until retiring in 2017. From November 2017 to 2024, Douglas was a lay member of the Scottish Social Services Council Fitness to Practise Committee, completing the maximum permitted two terms.