Catherine Dyer appointed Crown Agent
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service News Release
22 February 2010
CATHERINE DYER APPOINTED CROWN AGENT
Catherine Dyer today takes up the position of Crown Agent and Chief Executive of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), following the appointment to Sheriff of her predecessor Mr Norman McFadyen CBE.
The Crown Agent's principal role is as the civil service head of the legal staff in the COPFS and legal advisor to the Lord Advocate on prosecution matters .The Crown Agent also holds the post of Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (QLTR)
Speaking of the appointment of Mrs Dyer, the Lord Advocate, the Right Honourable Elish Angiolini QC said:
"Catherine Dyer is a highly experienced, well respected prosecutor and was joint author of the Pryce-Dyer report which marked the beginning of a major modernisation programme for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in 2002.
She has experience both in the Crown Office, and in leading Glasgow, our largest Area. She will bring a wide range of knowledge, skills and experience to this challenging new role.
"Her appointment is a formal recognition of the important contribution she has made and, I am sure, will continue to make in the future.
"I would also pay tribute to Norman McFadyen for his dedication and commitment to the prosecution service over the last 30 years and I wish him well in his new role as a Sheriff".
Notes to editors:
1. In January 2008 Mrs Dyer was appointed to the role of Chief of Strategic Delivery, a post created following an internal management review, and worked with each of Scotland's 11 Area Procurators Fiscal to ensure that high standards of performance were maintained. The appointment strengthened the ability of the prosecution service to take strategic decisions in response to a changing criminal justice landscape.
2. Mrs Dyer was the co-author of the Pryce-Dyer report which marked the beginning of a major modernisation programme in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in 2002.
3. Mrs Dyer graduated with an LL.B Hons from Glasgow University in 1982 and worked in private practice in Glasgow prior to joining COPFS as a Fiscal Depute in Kilmarnock in 1986. She returned to private practice briefly in 1990 before rejoining COPFS and has subsequently held posts in Hamilton, Glasgow, Crown Office, and Edinburgh prior to her appointment as the Procurator Fiscal for Linlithgow in 2000. Mrs Dyer was appointed as the Director of Change Management in April 2002 and as Senior Assistant Procurator Fiscal at Glasgow in December 2002. In December 2003 she was appointed Area Procurator Fiscal for Glasgow, the most senior Procurator Fiscal post in the country.
4. Mrs Dyer is married with 2 children.
5. An image of Mrs Dyer is available on request from Crown Office Communications.
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