FORMER Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini was given a five-figure taxpayer-funded "golden goodbye" after leaving her job.
Dame Elish stood down as Scotland's top prosecutor last year and was awarded a tax-free "resettlement grant" worth £28,000.
She has since taken a prestigious post at St Hugh's College, Oxford University.
Crown Office chiefs said Dame Elish, the first woman to become Lord Advocate, was entitled to the pay-out under Holyrood rules.
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