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Former Lord Advocate James Wolffe KC has described criticism of his successor Dorothy Bain as “deeply unfair” following her briefing to First Minister John Swinney on the Peter Murrell embezzlement case. Giving evidence to Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee, he said her update was factual and showed no evidence of impropriety. While acknowledging that briefing ministers on live criminal cases was not routine, he cited previous examples of similar communications. Mr Wolffe also defended the independence of Scotland’s prosecution system as an independent review examines the dual role of the Lord Advocate. He said that people proposing changes to the dual role should be "clear-eyed about those strengths, and about the complexities and trade-offs involved in moving to an alternative model."
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