A SCOTTISH peer has suggested that the country’s legal system may need a rethink in the wake of questions about the impartiality of the role of the Lord Advocate. Liberal Democrat grandee Sir Ming Campbell said Scotland should consider giving greater authority to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), and appointing a role similar to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in England and Wales to lead it.
Lord Advocate James Wolffe It comes after concerns were raised over the dual role held by the current Lord Advocate James Wolffe, who is both a Scottish Government minister and head of the COPFS.
AT times like this, my mind drifts to the Rorschach test, that fascinating set of ink-stained images that tell us all we need to know about the Scottish Tories. The Rorschach was a test developed by the Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach in 1921 to measure our thought disorders and to establish the sad psychological fact that in life, irrespective of the shapes set out in front of us, some people see what they want to see. Rorschach has been deployed by America as a military personnel test and was most recently popularised in the 1986 graphic novel, the Watchmen, as the code-name of Walter Kovacs, the violent and ruthless vigilante featured in the comic book series.
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