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Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service

Unless the cases are of especial importance, such as the Lockerbie trial held at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, the prosecutions are normally (but not always) led by Advocates Depute who are known collectively as Crown Counsel and are experienced members of the Faculty of Advocates normally appointed for a limited period of three years.


John Duncan Lowe

John Duncan Lowe CB (1948–98), lawyer, was a former Crown Agent for Scotland and Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin.

At the early age of 42, in 1991 Lowe was appointed Crown Agent for Scotland and in 1995 was invested CB, (Companion of the Order of the Bath.) In 1997 Lowe was appointed Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, a position he held until his death at Edinburgh the following year.


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