Tag: having had a twenty-year career in the prosecution service (Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service).  While the Law Officers will continue to provide advice to government on non-criminal law

Elish Angiolini QC was reappointed as Lord Advocate by the new SNP administration on 24 May 2007, despite her first appointment having been under the previous Labour administration (see Nos 139, 601).  But First Minister Alex Salmond indicated that the Lord Advocate would no longer be a member of the Scottish Cabinet, speaking of the apolitical and professional role … appropriate for the provision of legal advice to government”.  Underlining the extent to which the Scottish Law Officers have become primarily the managers of the public prosecution service