Nimmo Smith was appointed a temporary judge of the Court of Session in 1995 , and in 1996 was raised fully to the Bench as a Senator of the College of Justice , a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary , Scotland 's Supreme Courts , with the judicial title , '' ' Lord Nimmo Smith ' '' . Whilst a judge of the Outer House of the Court of Session , he served as the Insolvency Judge and one of the Intellectual Property Judges . In 2002 , he was one of five judges who heard the appeal of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi , the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing , at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands . He was promoted to the First Division of the Inner House in 2005 , at which time he was appointed a member of the Privy Council , affording him the style , '' The Right Honourable '' . He retired on 30 September 2009
Lockerbie bombing
Pan Am Flight 103
William Nimmo Smith, Lord Nimmo Smith