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Dorothy Ruth Bain KC (born 1964) is a Scottish advocate who has served as Lord Advocate since 2021. She is the second woman to hold the office after Lady Elish Angiolini KC . Bain previously served as the Principal Advocate Depute from 2009 to 2011, the first woman to hold the prosecutorial position in Scotland.
16 de jun. de 2021 · 16 June 2021. PA Media. Dorothy Bain has been named as the new lord advocate by the first minister. By David Cowan. Home affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland. A senior lawyer who secured serial...
16 de ago. de 2021 · Rt Hon Dorothy Bain KC was appointed Lord Advocate in June 2021. Responsibilities. The Lord Advocate, also known as His Majesty’s Advocate, is the senior Scottish Law Officer. The following are the Lord Advocate’s main functions: h ead of the systems for the investigation and prosecution of crime and investigation of deaths.
17 de jan. de 2024 · Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain said Post Office workers had been failed by the criminal justice system. She said the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), which has sole...
22 de nov. de 2022 · Politics. Who is Dorothy Bain? Why is she so important to the Scottish Government's indyref 2 Supreme Court case? By Scott McCartney. Published 22nd Nov 2022, 17:30 BST. Lord Advocate Dorothy...
29 de jun. de 2023 · In a rare legal move, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain has asked the appeal court to overturn a ruling made by five judges in 1997. The case is being heard by a panel of seven judges. Another senior...
It was just three months after taking up the post of Lord Advocate this summer that Dorothy Bain QC threw something of a curveball at the profession, telling MSPs on Holyrood’s Criminal Justice Committee that juryless trials for sexual offence cases should be looked into as a matter of urgency.
