The article text supplied for this piece could not be retrieved — the scraped content consists only of the Daily Mail's homepage navigation and unrelated headline teasers, not the actual story about Scotland's former top law officer. As a result, no genuine detail about her reported judicial application or her departure from the role is available to summarise.

Without the substantive article text (such as who the law officer is, when she applied, when she resigned, or the reasons given), I cannot responsibly provide specific facts, figures or context, as doing so would risk fabricating details not present in the source.