Splitting the roles of Lord Advocate and Solicitor General into prosecutor and minister respectively
It is a long-standing but nevertheless unsatisfactory feature of Scots law that the Lord Advocate performs two quite incompatible roles. On the one hand, the Lord Advocate is the Head of the Scots state prosecution service, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and yet he or she is…
Published by School of Law, University of Aberdeen
