Derek Andrew Ogg QC (1954 – 1 May 2020)[2][3] was a Scottish lawyer who, through the Historical Sexual Offences Pardons and Disregards Scotland Bill, campaigned for automatic pardons for gay and bisexual men with historical convictions of sexual offences that are no longer illegal in Scotland.
[4] In 1983, after hearing about a disease affecting gay men in the United States, Derek Ogg, along with Edward McGough, Nigel Cook and Simon Taylor set up the Scottish AIDS Monitor to educate gay men about the risks of HIV and AIDS.
[8] He also campaigned for an apology from the Scottish Government in 2017 to gay and bisexual men who had been convicted prior to 2001, under discriminatory laws against same-sex sexual activity that had since been made legal.
[9][6] He was a solicitor in private practice before becoming a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1989, receiving the award of Queen's Counsel in 1999.
As a QC, he led the prosecution in the trial of Malcolm Webster[10] and became the first head of the National Sexual Crimes Unit in 2009.