procurator fiscal
English
Noun
procurator fiscal (plural procurators fiscal)
- a public prosecutor in Scotland
- 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman[1]:
- 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.