Sheriff Principal In Scotland a sheriff principal (''pl''. sheriffs principal) () is a judge in charge of a sheriffdom with judicial, quasi-judicial, and administrative responsibilities. Sheriffs principal have been part of the judiciary of Scotland since the ...

Graham Cox, QC was a Sheriff Principal of South Strathclyde,

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;

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of Tayside, Central and Fife, Scotland; and Member of Council,

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Magistrates and Judges Association.

Education

Graham London Cox was born in

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on 22 December 1933 and received his education at the former

Hamilton Academy Hamilton Academy was a Boarding school, boarding and day school in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was founded in 1588 as a boy's school and was open for nearly four centuries. In the late 19th century, ...

; the

Grove Academy Grove Academy is an 11–18 mixed secondary school in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland. There are four associated feeder Primary schools linked to Grove, which are Barnhill, Craigiebarns, Eastern and Forthill. History Grove Academy was est ...

school and at the

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.Frost’s Scottish Who’s Who – Graham Cox
Retrieved 28 October 2010

Career

Serving in the

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from 1956–1961 and attaining the rank of Major in the Directorate of Army Legal Services, Graham Cox was

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in 1962 and served as an

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-depute from 1966–1968, in which year he was appointed

of Tayside, Central and Fife, at Dundee, a post he held until 1993 when he was appointed

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and

Sheriff Principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway The Sheriff Principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway is the head of the judicial system of the sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, one of the six sheriffdoms covering the whole of Scotland. The sheriffdom employs ...

(1993–2000). It was during his term of office that the suspects arrested regarding the

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appeared before him on 6 April 1999 at a makeshift Scottish court at Kamp Van Zeist, The Netherlands; this court appearance starting off the subsequent legal proceedings in the trial of suspects. Cox served as Secretary of the Sheriffs' Association from 1987 to 1991 and as President from 1991 to 1993. Other appointments have included, Hon. Vice-President of the Scottish Association for the Study of Delinquency and Vice-Chairman,

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. In 1991, Graham Cox was appointed a member of Council,

Magistrates and Judges Association, a post he has held twice, 1991–94 and again, 1997–2000; and in 2001 he took up the appointment as Chairman of the Adoption Policy Advisory Group. He died in 2014.

References

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