Richard Keen
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The Right Honourable The Lord Keen of Elie QC |
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| Advocate General for Scotland | |
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Assumed office 29 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | The Lord Wallace of Tankerness |
| Chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party | |
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In office January 2014 – 28 May 2015 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Richard Sanderson Keen 29 March 1954 |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Anderson |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Profession | Advocate |
Richard Sanderson Keen, Baron Keen of Elie, QC (born 29 March 1954) is a Scottish lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He has been Advocate General for Scotland since May 2015.
Keen was educated at The King's School, Rochester and Dollar Academy, and graduated with a LLB in law from the University of Edinburgh in 1976, where he was a Beckman scholar. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1980 and took silk (QC) in 1993.
Keen served as standing junior counsel in Scotland to the Department of Trade and Industry from 1986–93, and is chairman of the appeals committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He specialises in commercial law, property law and administrative law.
He defended Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, with Fhimah being acquitted of all charges. In 2007, he represented Henri Paul's family in a case about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Keen represented the Scottish football club Rangers at their unsuccessful appeal against a one-year transfer/registration embargo which was held on 16 May 2012. Rangers subsequently reappealed the decision commencing on 25 May 2012, with this appeal proving successful.
He represented Andy Coulson in relation to perjury charges.
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