Tackling transnational crime: A Scottish perspective

In this speech, given in Brussels on 29 January 2018, the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, the head of Scotland’s systems of prosecution and investigation of deaths, discusses, from a Scottish perspective, the challenge of transnational crime and the benefits of current European Union (EU) cooperation regimes in the prosecution of cross-border crime, in the context of the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the EU