Bruce is one of the Legal Officers for the Commission. He is originally from Wellington, New Zealand. Bruce has degrees in Law and History from Te Whare Wananga o Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui/Victoria University of Wellington (link) and a Diploma in the International Protection of Human Rights from Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He practised as a barrister and solicitor in Wellington before moving to Scotland in 2002, qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2004, and in Scotland in 2006. Bruce worked for the Scottish Parliament and Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People before joining SHRC in October 2008. He is a member of Edinburgh’s Children’s Panel and a member of the Board of the Scottish Child Law Centre. He was also an independent expert on Human Rights Institutions for the European Commission’s peer review mission to Turkey on judiciary and fundamental rights in 2011.