procurator fiscal

British

noun

Sometimes shortened to: fiscal. (in Scotland) a legal officer who performs the functions of public prosecutor and coroner

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His death is not being treated as suspicious and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

The force said that inquiries were ongoing but there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances and a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Police Scotland said there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.

From BBC • May 11, 2025

The judges and the procurator fiscal, rinding that they could elicit nothing from Wagner relative to the cause of his absence from home during the night preceding the murder, passed on to another subject.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)

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