Jonathan Lake, Lord Lake QC is a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland who was appointed as a Senator in May 2022.[1][2]
In April 2023, a one of Lord Lake's rulings received media attention for the sentence he passed onto a convicted rapist. Sean Hogg was not given a custodial sentence and instead given 270 hours of unpaid work. Lord Lake's ruling received some criticism, with a deputy Crown agent at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service calling it "unduly lenient".[3] The man was later acquitted after an appeal.[4]