Kenny MacAskill was, until 2016, a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh Eastern, and former Cabinet Secretary for Justice in the Scottish government. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh and was a senior partner in an Edinburgh law firm before being elected as an MSP in 1999. He is the author of the acclaimed The Lockerbie Bombing: The search for Justice (ISBN 9781785900723).
