Top QC slams Lord Advocate 'experiment'

A LEADING QC has described Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini's appointment as a "disastrous experiment", it was reported today.

Robert Black, Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Edinburgh said Ms Angiolini - who announced her resignation last week - was too close to the government and described her as "a Crown Office staffer".

He said: "She had never in her working life spent a day outside the Crown Office when the whole point of a Lord Advocate is that he or she is not a Crown Office creature.

"The appointment of a Crown Office staffer as Lord Advocate was a disastrous experiment."