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The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Profession. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor (formally, 'The Solicitor for the affairs of His Majesty's Treasury'). This office goes back several centuries.
The Solicitor of the Treasury position was created in the United States Department of the Treasury by an act of May 29, 1830 4 Stat. 414, which changed the name of the Agent of the Treasury. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The office was preceded by the offices of the Comptroller of the Treasury (1789–1817), First Comptroller of the Treasury (1817–1820), Agent of the Treasury (1820–1830), and Solicitor of the Treasury (1830–1934). Addar Levi has served as acting General Counsel since June 2024. [2]
The Treasury Solicitor (currently Susanna McGibbon) is also the Head of the Government Legal Profession. GLP lawyers are mostly employed by the Government Legal Department , although based in other government departments, with some being directly employed by the department in which they work.
McGibbon worked as a private practice barrister after being called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1990. [3] Following a brief spell in private practice, McGibbon joined the Government Legal Profession first at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before moving to the Treasury Solicitor's Department (GLD) in 1998 (where she also worked in the Ministry of Defence for two years). [3]
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