Sheriff Principal Stuart Reid

 

Sheriff Stuart Reid was appointed Temporary Sheriff Principal of the Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin effective from 24 August 2026.

Sheriff Reid was appointed as a Sheriff in Glasgow in 2011. He has been one of the three nominated commercial sheriffs at Glasgow for the last decade. In 2024, he was appointed as a judicial member of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. In 2025, he was appointed as  an Appeal Sheriff in the Sheriff Appeal Court.

Sheriff Reid was admitted as a Solicitor in 1991. He joined Maclay Murray & Spens in 1992 specialising in Commercial Dispute Resolution and was assumed as a Partner there in 2000. He qualified as a solicitor advocate in 2000 (with extended civil rights of audience) and spent a year in Maclays’ London Office  where he gained experience of commercial litigation in the English High Court and County Courts.