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Cooley, Rita (1958). "Predecessors of the Federal Attorney General: The Attorney General in England and the American Colonies". The American Journal of Legal History. 2 (4). Temple University: 304– 312. doi:10.2307/844539. ISSN 0002-9319. JSTOR 844539. Dickens, Bernard (1972). "The Attorney-General's Consent to Prosecutions". The Modern Law ...
The Attorney General has public interest functions, being, for example, the trustee of default where a sole trustee has died, and can also take cases to the Supreme Court where points of general legal importance need to be settled. The Attorney General's deputy is the Solicitor General for England and Wales, held by Lucy Rigby, since 2 December ...
President of the Canadian Bar Association, 1979–1980; [12] Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, 1991–1993. [13] Roy McMurtry (1932–2024). Attorney General of Ontario, 1975–1985; High Commissioner of Canada to the UK, 1985–1988; Chief Justice of Ontario, 1996–2007. [14] Ray Hnatyshyn (1934–2002). 24th Governor-General of Canada ...
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It supports the Attorney General and their deputy, the Solicitor General (together, the Law officers of the Crown in England and Wales). It is sometimes referred to as the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers.
After Starmer became Prime Minister following the 2024 general election, he appointed Hermer to the government as Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland. He is the first person to have not served in Parliament before becoming Attorney General in over a century.
Attorney General's Office: Style: Solicitor: Reports to: Attorney General for England and Wales: Appointer: The Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister: Term length: At His Majesty's Pleasure: Formation: Before 1460 : Salary: £142,106 per annum (2022) [1] (including £84,144 MP salary) [2] Website: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Sir Jeremy Paul Wright KC (born 24 October 1972) is a British lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General for England and Wales from 2014 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2018 to 2019.
The Law Officers Act 1997 (c. 60) is an act of Parliament which allows the Solicitor General for England and Wales to exercise the powers of the Attorney General for England and Wales or the Advocate General for Northern Ireland (ex-officio the Attorney General) without the Attorney General needing to explicitly authorise the Solicitor General or for an enactment to separately grant powers to ...