Alex Prentice
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Alex Prentice QC
is a leading Scottish lawyer.
He has held some senior posts at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
, the body which normally carries out prosecutions in Scotland. He is currently the principal advocate depute, having become an assistant principal advocate in 2009. With a restructuring on 1 August 2011 he will become the senior crown counsel.
Unusually, he qualified by taking the Law Society examinations rather than a university degree.
He qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and as a Solicitor Advocate in 1994. He practised as a defence solicitor for 21 years. In 2004 he became the first Solicitor Advocate from outwith the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to be appointed as an Advocate Depute. He was appointed as a Senior Advocate Depute in 2006 and became a QC in 2007.
He has prosecuted a number of significant cases including the shotgun murder at the "Marmion" public house in Edinburgh, the murder of Jolanta Bledaite, and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan
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Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
is a leading Scottish lawyer.
He has held some senior posts at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service provides the independent public prosecution service for Scotland, and is a Ministerial Department of the Scottish Government. The department is headed by Her Majesty's Lord Advocate, who under the Scottish legal system is responsible for prosecution,...
, the body which normally carries out prosecutions in Scotland. He is currently the principal advocate depute, having become an assistant principal advocate in 2009. With a restructuring on 1 August 2011 he will become the senior crown counsel.
Unusually, he qualified by taking the Law Society examinations rather than a university degree.
He qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and as a Solicitor Advocate in 1994. He practised as a defence solicitor for 21 years. In 2004 he became the first Solicitor Advocate from outwith the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to be appointed as an Advocate Depute. He was appointed as a Senior Advocate Depute in 2006 and became a QC in 2007.
He has prosecuted a number of significant cases including the shotgun murder at the "Marmion" public house in Edinburgh, the murder of Jolanta Bledaite, and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan
HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan
Her Majesty's Advocate v Thomas Sheridan and Gail Sheridan was the 2010 criminal prosecution of Tommy Sheridan, a former Member of the Scottish Parliament and his wife Gail Sheridan for perjury in relation to the earlier civil case Sheridan v News Group Newspapers.In Scotland criminal prosecutions...
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