Robin McEwan, Lord McEwan

Robin Gilmour McEwan, commonly called Lord McEwan was a Scottish lawyer and former judge of the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session, the country's Supreme Courts.

Early life McEwan was born on 12 December 1943 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, to Ian G. McEwan and Mary McEwan. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School, and the School of Law of the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with a First in Law. He held the Faulds Fellowship in Law at the university from 1965 to 1968, having been admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1967, and took a Ph.D. in 1969, entitled The rights and liabilities of the undisclosed principal in the law of agency.

From 1974 to 1976, McEwan was Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Energy, and was appointed Advocate Depute in 1976, serving until 1979. He took silk in 1981, and became Chairman of the Industrial Tribunals the same year, serving until 1982, when he was appointed Sheriff of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, first at Lanark but moving in 1988 to Ayr. and co-authored A Casebook of Damages in Scotland with Ann Paton; the two would later be appointed to the bench in the same year. He has also contributed to the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia.

Personal life McEwan married Sheena McIntyre in 1973, with whom he has two daughters.