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Jul 9, 2024 · Act 2020’ — as attorney-general in many ways he will be on neutral territory. Starmer — himself a lawyer who worked in human rights before becoming the Director of Public Prosecutions ...
2 days ago · The Ohio Attorney General’s Office offers a special thanks to the 100-plus law enforcement agencies and non-government organizations that joined AG Yost’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission in carrying out Operation END-OHHT. The lead agency for each OOCIC task force is listed first: Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force:
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- The Rt Hon Victoria Prentis KC MP
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Organisations: Attorney General's Office
Current role holder: The Rt Hon Victoria Prentis KC MP
The Attorney General is chief legal adviser to the Crown and has a number of independent public interest functions, as well as overseeing the Law Officers’ departments.
Responsibilities include:
•Overall responsibility for the work of the Attorney General’s Office and superintended Departments (the Government Legal Department, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Serious Fraud Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate)
•Specific statutory duty to superintend the discharge of duties by the Director of Public Prosecutions (who heads the Crown Prosecution Service) and the Director of the Serious Fraud Office
•Non-statutory general oversight of the Services Prosecuting Authority and government prosecuting departments
•Government’s principal legal adviser dealing with (amongst others) questions of international law, human rights, devolution and COVID-19 issues
Victoria Prentis was appointed Attorney General on 25 October 2022.
She was previously Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from 7 September 2022 to 25 October 2022.
Victoria was previously Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 16 September 2021 to 7 September 2022.
Before that, she was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 14 February 2020 to 15 September 2021.
Victoria served on the Justice Select Committee from 2015 to 2019, the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments from 2015 to 2017, and as a lay member on the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art from 2019.
Victoria also served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General from 2019 to 2020, to the Leader of the House of Commons from 2017 to 2019, and to Junior Ministers at the Department for Transport from 2016 to 2017.
For seventeen years Victoria was a lawyer for the Treasury Solicitors’ Department and headed up the government’s Justice and Security team. Her responsibilities included providing advice on military, prisons and national security matters and representing the government in court.
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v. t. e. His Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales is the chief legal adviser to the sovereign and Government in affairs pertaining to England and Wales as well as the highest ranking amongst the law officers of the Crown. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The attorney general is the leader of the Attorney General's Office and currently attends (but is not ...
SW1H 9EA. United Kingdom. Email. press.office@attorneygeneral.gov.uk. Office hours. 020 7271 2443 / 020 7271 2479. Out of hours. 07928654096. If you have an urgent media enquiry out of office ...
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