Legal guidelines aimed at clarifying the law on assisted suicide will not be prepared in Scotland. The director of public prosecutions in England and Wales has spelled out a range of factors to be taken into account when deciding on cases. However, Scotland's top law officer, Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini, said it would be inappropriate for her to publish detailed guidance. Ms Angiolini said the legal landscape in Scotland was different. In response to a letter from Liberal Democrat MSP Jeremy Purvis, Ms Angiolini said the statutory offence of assisted suicide did not exist in Scotland. However, she said involvement in a suicide might amount to homicide and that was up to Scotland's "different system" of public prosecution to determine.