procurator fiscal

plural procurators fiscal

1. A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.

   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.

   1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

   2 more examples

   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.

   2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman

   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.

   2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32