procurator fiscal
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English
Noun
procurator fiscal (plural procurators fiscal)
- A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- There was word of the procurator fiscal taking note of his doings, and troth, if they had continued long he must have fled the country.
- 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:
- For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
- 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
- For other notifications that do not meet the investigative threshold, RAIB may respond by writing a letter to the industry and issuing a press statement, taking no further action, or in the event of a fatality writing a letter to the coroner or the procurator fiscal (in Scotland) containing a summary of evidence.
References
- “procurator fiscal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.