Our Team

Lyndsay is a Senior Associate Solicitor in our Scottish Women’s Rights Centre. She completed her traineeship within a private practice firm, with a strong focus on family law and civil court work.

As a law student at the University of Strathclyde in 2015, she was one of the first student volunteers at the Law Clinic for the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC), assisting with the SWRC helpline and casework. She undertook a summer internship with the SWRC and continued to volunteer on the helpline throughout her traineeship and post qualification. She was appointed Co-Student Director of the Law Clinic from 2015-2016. Lyndsay works in the SWRC, providing advice, information and representation to women who have experienced gender based violence through our helpline, surgery and legal casework, as well as delivering training and awareness raising events.

Melanie is a Solicitor in our Scottish Women’s Rights Centre. She completed her traineeship within a private practice firm, practicing both criminal and civil law and practiced in a variety of private practice firms and with Local Authorities.  She practiced with a strong focus on family law, child law and civil court work.

She studied at the University of Dundee, graduating 2002 and completing her Diploma in 2003.  She then returned to the University of Dundee in 2018 where she graduated with an LLM in International Criminal Law and Human Rights.

Her areas of particular interest lie with gender-based violence, the rights of children and human rights and mental health rights.

Eilidh is a Trainee Solicitor and Justice First Fellow through the Legal Education Foundation.  Her fellowship is sponsored by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP, through Skadden’s Justice First Skadden Trainee (JUST) Programme. She has an LLM in Human Rights and Migration Law and has a background in case work, legal research, and communications.

Eilidh previously worked at the British Institute of Human Rights as a Human Rights Officer. Here her work involved designing and delivering human rights learning and practice projects, workshops and co-produced resources, as well as leading inclusive and participatory policy work.

Eilidh is passionate about using the law as a tool for positive change and making human rights more accessible for all.

Hanan is a Trainee Solicitor in our Scottish Women’s Rights Centre.

Hanan is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (LLB Honours) and the University of Strathclyde (Diploma in Professional Legal Practice). She has experience working as a caseworker at a national law centre and at the University of Strathclyde Law Clinic within the Immigration Unit, where she was Immigration Unit Coordinator throughout her studies at the University of Strathclyde.

As part of her role, Hanan was involved in assisting to prepare fresh claims for asylum for people seeking asylum whose appeal rights had been exhausted. She was also involved in setting up and delivering a Public Legal Education project for asylum seekers and refugees living in Glasgow with a team of law students. Hanan has also worked as a Destitution Adviser at the Scottish Refugee Council as part of the Destitute Asylum Seeker Service, providing support and advocacy to destitute asylum seekers.

Laura Nairn is a solicitor at JustRight Scotland working in the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre.

Laura completed her undergraduate degree in Scottish Law and her Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Glasgow. Laura commenced her traineeship in 2021, spending one year of her traineeship working in the family law department.

She qualified as a solicitor in 2023 and continued advising clients on a range of family law matters, including divorce, child law, cohabitation and protective orders. Throughout this time, Laura has gained experience working with women affected by gender-based violence and developing an understanding of the difficulties survivors face within the legal system and society.

Laura is passionate about increasing access to justice, improving the support and remedies available to survivors and reducing the root causes of gender-based violence.

Jan joined JRS as an intern in Feb 2020 and is now a Caseworker in our Scottish Women’s Rights Centre.

Jan is a law student at Robert Gordon University and a graduate of Edinburgh University (LLM International Law) and Sussex University (BaHons International Relations). She has experience working as a caseworker in the areas of asylum, immigration and human rights law. She worked with survivors of gender-based violence & human trafficking and unaccompanied detained minors at the Cabrini Centre for Immigrant Legal Assistance in the USA, where she undertook accreditation to become a Department of Justice Representative. Alongside her case work, Jan delivered legal education in detention facilities.

Jan also worked for 5 years as a lecturer in international law in Mexico whilst working on collaborative research projects with the State Human Rights Commission. In Mexico, she also volunteered with survivors of human trafficking & gender-based violence at a refuge.

Constance is a Legal Caseworker in our Scottish Women’s Rights Centre.

She is a recent graduate of the University of Edinburgh (LLM Human Rights), following the completion of a first Master’s in Security Studies at the University College of London (UCL). After having initially focused academically on international relations, she decided to specialise in international and European human rights law. She is particularly interested in migration and asylum issues, as well as women’s rights and their protection from gender-based violence at work and in education among others.

She has experience working with displaced persons and asylum-seekers in Canada, France and Belgium through various organisations. This interest brought her to the EU institutions where she worked at the European Commission and the European Parliament on EU asylum policies and on amending legislative proposals to reflect a human rights-based approach. She also conducted advocacy work with the International Rescue Committee towards the EU institutions.

Rosa is a Trainee Solicitor and a Justice First Fellow with the Legal Education Foundation.

She graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2021 with a Scots Law LLB and undertook her Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at Strathclyde University. During this time she focused on international law, human rights, and justice. Before coming to work with JustRight Scotland she was a paralegal at a Public Inquiry.

She is passionate about lowering the barriers to accessing justice and challenging the wider oppressive systems in place.