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Published Date: 28 May 2007
By JENNIFER VEITCH
ELISH Angiolini, QC, has managed to notch up a remarkable number of firsts in her legal career. In 2001, she became the first solicitor and the first woman to become Solicitor General. Last October, she went one better by becoming the first solicitor and first lady to be appointed Lord Advocate.
Now Angiolini has also become the first in living memory to keep the top law officer's job despite a change of administration. Yet, with the SNP at the helm, she has also become the first Lord Advocate in the post-devolution era to be excluded from r...



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Pollock Bain,

Kinross 28/05/2007 09:57:28

Well done, Mr Salmond, for keeping Elish as Lord Advocate. How about taking some of the best former ministers into the cabinet while you're at it? Like Cathy Jamieson at Justice?

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Anthony,

Glasgow 28/05/2007 12:23:05

I believe Angiolini is a terrible Lord Advocate and was also a dismal Solicitor General. That is the view of many senior judges too. As reported not so long ago, Lord Hardie threatened to jail her for contempt of court, such was her persistent attempts to undermine the course of justice.The SNP are however doing the correct thing keeping her in post. That way she is well and truly in the firing line when the results of her terrible decisions and advice during the last administration finally rebound back.


 

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