Andrew Hardie, Baron Hardie
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The Right Honourable The Lord Hardie PC QC |
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| Senator of the College of Justice | |
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In office March 2000 – 31 December 2012 |
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| Nominated by |
Donald Dewar As First Minister |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Lord Advocate | |
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In office 1997–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Lord Mackay of Drumadoon |
| Succeeded by | Lord Boyd of Duncansby |
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Andrew Rutherford Hardie 8 January 1946 Alloa |
| Political party | Labour |
| Residence | Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Profession | Advocate |
Andrew Rutherford Hardie, Baron Hardie, PC, QC (born 8 January 1946) is a former Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and a former Lord Advocate, the country's senior Law Officer. He led the prosecution team in the preparation of the original Lockerbie bombing trial, but resigned as Lord Advocate shortly before the trial commenced in 2000.
Born in Alloa, Hardie was educated at St Modan's High School, Stirling and at the University of Edinburgh (M.A., LL.B.). He was admitted as a solicitor in 1971 and to the Faculty of Advocates in 1973. He served as an Advocate Depute from 1979 to 1983, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985. He was Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates from 1989 until he was elected Dean of the Faculty from 1994 to 1997. From 1991 to 1994 he sat as a part-time Chairman of the Medical Appeals Tribunal.
Following Labour's 1997 election victory, Hardie was appointed Lord Advocate, and created a life peer, as Baron Hardie, of Blackford in the City of Edinburgh, and appointed to the Privy Council. As well as serving as the country's top prosecutor, he played an active role in the House of Lords, including acting as a Government spokesman during the passage of the Scotland Act 1998. Under the terms of this Act, the Lord Advocate became a member of the new Scottish Executive, with his duties to the UK Government passing to the newly created office of Advocate General for Scotland. The first Scottish Parliament was elected in 1999, at which time Hardie became a member of the Scottish Executive.
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