[2] Davidson was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1979, and appointed Standing Junior Counsel to the Registrar General in 1982, and the Department of Health and Social Security in 1988.

Following Labour's defeat in the 2010 general election, Davidson was succeeded in the post by Liberal Democrat Jim Wallace, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland.

[5] He was the International Commission of Jurists' chef de mission to Egypt on sequestration of the Egyptian Bar in 1998.

[8] The conference organisers published a "Lhasa Consensus" document [9] supporting the position and policy of the Chinese government regarding Tibet.

[10] Lord Davidson did not respond to Western media enquiries regarding the accuracy of the comments attributed to him and seeking clarification of his position regarding the Lhasa Consensus.