From: "Keri Malone" <keri1-AT-slip.net>
Subject: Re: A pedant leaps in
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:48:22 -0700


I said

> >I must point out that there is, in fact, no such
> >thing as "UK law", and there never has been.
> >There is Scottish law, and there is English law.

Andy commented

> And the Scots have better names, like "Procurator Fiscal",
> also a very old TV series starring Iain Cuthbertson,
> which Dave might remember.

I can't remember what it was called, but Ian Cuthbertson played the
Procurator Fiscal in it. There was one episode where a claims investigator
from an English insurance company thought he had cast-iron evidence that a
man had committed suicide in order to benefit his family. He was sick when
he found that his company was going to have to pay out on the claim anyway,
because of  the difference between Scottish and English law.

Dave