Members

Member of the Tribunal since 2006. Chair of the Tribunal since June 2021. Admitted 1994. Sole practitioner principally in the fields of property law, wills, trusts, executries and tax law. Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Part time Tutor at the University of Glasgow School of Law.

Eric Baijal was admitted as a solicitor in 2005. Member of the Tribunal since July 2024. He leads BBM Solicitors, a law firm with offices in Wick and Edinburgh. Eric is a commercial litigator and is accredited as a specialist in insolvency law by the law society of Scotland. As from 1 December 2024, he is a legal member for the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland. 

Member of the Tribunal since January 2024. She has a PhD in palaeoichthyology and an LLM in medical law. Together with her scientific background, she has public service experience working for a local authority and a range of NHS Trusts across the North East and Yorkshire, covering learning disabilities, community and mental health and ambulance services.

Angela served as a trustee of Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) from 2012 – 2021 including six years as Treasurer and chair of the Finance and Investment Committee. She is currently a Lay Panel Member for the Health and Care Professions Council, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Taxation Disciplinary Board and a lay adjudicator for Social Work England. She is a lay chair for the UK Council for Psychotherapy, a Revalidation Reviewer for the General Pharmaceutical Council and a CPD Reviewer for the Architects Registration Board. Angela has completed her terms of service as a lay panellist for the Teaching Regulation Agency, the Scottish Social Services Council and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. She is also a lay school appeals panellist for Newcastle and does occasional work for the College of Policing as an external assessor for senior appointments.