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A graduate in law from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheriff Farquharson called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1993. After practising in Chambers in London, she returned home to Scotland and was admitted into the Faculty of Advocates in 2002.
In 2010 she became an Advocate Depute, latterly the Assistant Principal Crown Counsel. She was appointed King’s Counsel in 2018.
Sheriff Farquharson was appointed as a resident sheriff for Livingston in October 2021 and in February 2024 a temporary judge in the High Court of Justiciary