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Although a valuable position, the attorney general was expected to work incredibly hard; although Francis North (1637–1685) was earning £7,000 a year as attorney general he was pleased to give up the office and become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas because of the smaller workload, despite the heavily reduced pay. [9]
The law officers are the senior legal advisors to His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom and devolved governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.They are variously referred to as the Attorney General, Solicitor General, Lord Advocate, or Advocate General depending on seniority and geography – though other terms are also in use, such as the Counsel General for Wales.
Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, PC, KC (born 5 January 1950), is a British barrister who served as Attorney General for England and Wales and Attorney General for Northern Ireland from 2001 and 2007. His resignation, announced on 22 June 2007, took effect on 27 June, the same day that Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped down. Goldsmith ...
Between September 2021 and 2024 [17] Sackman worked as a barrister at Matrix Chambers along with Richard Hermer the current Attorney General for England and Wales [9] [18] [19] [20] and worked on a number of cases mainly focused on Public and Environmental Law. [21]
Former Attorney General and Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, wrote in The Telegraph that Hermer should "come clean" about his past clients – "or resign". [179] Braverman said that the law officers' convention offered "thin cover", and argued that the "perception of bias" regarding Hermer's involvement in the Afghanistan inquiry was "undeniable."
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.
Victoria Mary Prentis, KC (née Boswell; born 24 March 1971) is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, Prentis served as the Member of Parliament for Banbury from 2015 until her defeat in 2024.
Rudranath Capildeo (BSc, MSc, PhD, Lecturer), Trinidad and Tobago barrister at law (attorney-at-law), [11] mathematician, politician, former leader of Democratic Labour Party and leader of the Opposition; The Rt. Hon. Sir Vincent Floissac, Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court [12] Dia Forrester, first woman Attorney General of ...