Dorothy McGhie LL.B.

Solicitor

Career

After graduating in 1976, I qualified as a solicitor in 1978 .

From 1982 to 1991 I was a Partner with McCann Fordyce, Solicitors in Dumbarton and then from 1991 until 2000 I was a partner with Fordyce & Co. in Alexandria, setting up on my own in 2001.

I served on the Rent Assessment Panel for Scotland for 9 years and was on the panel of Curators Ad Litem in adoptions for 13 years.

I have also been the Secretary and the Librarian of the Faculty of Solicitors of Dunbartonshire.

I was accredited as a specialist in Child Law from 1995 until 2005 and as a specialist in Family Law from 2000 until 2010. I served on the committee of The Family Law Association before becoming Vice Chair and then Chair in 1996. I was on the panel of bar reporters for Dumbarton and Glasgow Sheriff Courts for many years.

I am presently on the Council of the Scottish Law Agents' Society, of which I am a past President and a Peer Reviewer under the civil legal aid quality assurance scheme.

I am computer literate and have basic keyboard skills. In 2003 I obtained the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)