EXCLUSIVE: Dorothy Bain is a regular at Cabinet, despite Alex Salmond changing the policy nearly twenty years ago.

Reports this weekend suggested First Minister John Swinney was informed Nicola Sturgeon had been cleared before she had.

Dorothy Bain KC answered questions from MSPs about a memo sent in March 2025 to John Swinney regarding an embezzlement charge facing Peter Murrell.

John Swinney said there is a ‘long standing tradition’ of lord advocates providing information to the head of the government ...

It has sparked calls from the opposition at Holyrood for Dorothy Bain KC to appear before MSPs to answer questions.

Documents show the lord advocate first informed John Swinney that Peter Murrell had been charged with embezzlement in March.

Dame Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour’s deputy leader, has now written to the Scottish Government’s Independent Advisers on the Ministerial Code urging them to consider investigating “potential ...

Scottish independence is "within reach", John Swinney has declared, following a new poll projection that places his party just one seat short of a majority in this year’s Holyrood election.

Dorothy Bain KC has been accused of giving the SNP leader political advantage with a minute about the case against Peter ...

Scotland’s top prosecutor has come under intense scrutiny after it was revealed she shared details of the embezzlement ...

The First Minister declined to comment on why he was given sight of the indictment weeks before it was made public.

First Minister John Swinney was given details of a criminal charge against former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell weeks before it became public. Scotland's top law officer told Swinney on 19 January ...