Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.

The then Attorney General for England and Wales ( Sir Thomas Inskip ) is reported to have warned the then Attorney-General of the Irish Free State ( Conor Maguire ) that Ireland had no right to abolish appeals to the Privy Council.

Ernest Pollock, the former Attorney General for England and Wales said " May we not as lawyers regard the establishment of an International Court of Justice as an advance in the science that we pursue?

* December 28 – John Bankes, Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England ( b. 1589 )

* Francis Bacon of England ( 1561 – 1626 ), philosopher, jurist, scientist, writer, and politician ; specifically Member of Parliament, Attorney General for England and Wales ( 1613 – 1617 ), and Lord Chancellor ( 1617 – 1621 )

* Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry of England ( 1578 – 1640 ), Judge, Member of Parliament, and politician ( Specifically Soliticar General ( 1617 – 1621 ), Attorney General ( 1621 – 1625 ), and Lord Chancellor ( 1625 – 1640 ))

* John Davies of England ( 1569 – 1626 ), lawyer, poet, and politician ( specifically Attorney General of Ireland, Member of Parliament, and Judge )

* Sir Henry Yelverton of England ( 1566 – 1629 ), Attorney General for England and Wales, in office 1617-1621

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

** John Bankes, Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England ( d. 1644 )

The Attorney General for England and Wales is similarly the chief law officer of the Crown in England and Wales, and advises and represents the Crown and government departments in court.

The Attorney General's deputy is the Solicitor General for England and Wales.

Since the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, the Attorney General for England and Wales was also Attorney General for Northern Ireland.

In response to the panel's report, Attorney General for England and Wales, Dominic Grieve MP, confirmed he would consider all the new evidence to evaluate whether the original inquest verdicts of accidental death could be overturned.

* Solicitor General for England and Wales, the deputy for the Attorney General for England and Wales

Rather, the beneficiaries are represented by the Attorney General for England and Wales as a parens patriae, who appears on the part of The Crown.

On 10 April 1594, Coke was made Attorney General for England and Wales thanks to his partnership with the Cecil family ; Francis Bacon, his rival, was supported by Robert Devereux, who waged a constant war against Robert Cecil for control of the English government.

The Attorney General of the Duchy of Cornwall is the chief legal adviser to the Prince of Wales, and there is a separate Attorney General for the Duchy of Lancaster, an appointment that is held by the Crown.

Section 102 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 required the Clerk to the Assembly to present Measures passed by the Assembly after a four-week period during which the Counsel General for Wales or the Attorney General could refer the proposed Measure to the Supreme Court for a decision as to whether the measure was within the Assembly's legislative competence.

The Attorney General for England and Wales together with the chair of the governing political party, are customarily included, and other members of the Government can be invited at the Prime Minister's discretion, either regularly or ad-hoc.

Ellesmere appealed to the Monarch, who referred the matter to the Attorney General for the Prince of Wales and Francis Bacon, the Attorney General for England and Wales.

The Attorney General convinces the dim-witted Le Petomane to select Bart ( Cleavon Little ), a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged.

#** Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( 1851 – 1921 ), U. S. Attorney General married Ellen Channing Day

* Frederick J. Stimson, Ambassador to Argentina ( 1914 – 1921 ), Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts

), a United States Attorney or County attorney

The Committee consist of two elected members of the Legislative Assembly ( appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Legislative Assembly ), the Chief Executive, the Attorney General and the Chief Medical Officer.

The Attorney General ( AG ), appointed by the Governor, is the main legal adviser to the Falkland Islands Government.

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

Janet Wood Reno ( born July 21, 1938 ), served as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001.

John David Ashcroft ( born May 9, 1942 ) is an American politician who served as the 79th U. S. Attorney General ( 2001-05 ), in the George W. Bush Administration.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

* Phoenix Wright ( character ), an Ace Attorney character

CMD's executive director, Lisa Graves ( a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U. S. Department of Justice ), has testified several times before Congress on national security, homeland security, and civil liberties issues, joined in legal briefs on such issues, and her analysis has been published by the Texas Law Review and in numerous other articles.

Charles Lee ( 1758 – 1815 ), U. S. Attorney General under John Adams.

On June 6, 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft proposed regulations that would create a special registration program that required males aged 16 to 64 who were citizens of designated foreign nations resident in the U. S. to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), have their identity verified, and be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted.

Creswell ( Postmaster General ), and Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar ( Attorney General ), were popularly received by the nation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, leading policy proposals, traveling abroad as a State Department representative to 82 nations, advising her husband, and being elected a Senator ( in 2000 ), is the most openly empowered and politically powerful First Lady in American history ; Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno take two of the cabinet's top jobs as United States Secretary of State (# 1 ), and United States Attorney General (# 4 ), respectively.

The Attorney General of Israel is the head of the public prosecution from the state, the person who advises the government in legal matters, the person who represents the state's authorities in the courts, and advises in preparation of law memoranda of the government in general and the Justice Minister in particular ( likewise he examines and advises for private proposals for a law of Knesset members ).

For a person to be eligible for the post of Attorney General, he / she also has to be qualified to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court.

In practice, the Treasury Solicitor ( who also has the title of Procurator General ) normally provides the lawyers or briefs Treasury Counsel to appear in court, although the Attorney General may appear in person.

In order to represent a party in a case in a district court, a person must be an Attorney at law and generally must be admitted to the bar of that particular court.

He later wrote an article for Vanity Fair about his investigation of Steven Hatfill, a virologist who had been labeled a " person of interest " by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Other statutory considerations are that the Attorney General or a provincial director may apply to extend the length of time the young person will spend in custody.

Accountable to the Attorney General, it has jurisdiction over England, Wales and Northern Ireland and assists a number of overseas investigations by obtaining information from UK sources Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 grants the SFO special compulsory powers to require any person ( or business / bank ) to provide any relevant documents ( including confidential ones ) and answer any relevant questions including ones about confidential matters.

However, in recent times the Attorney General has exceptionally conducted litigation in person before the courts, for instance before the House of Lords in A and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department, where the legality of the Government's detention of terrorist suspects at Belmarsh was at issue.

( c ) A person appointed as United States attorney under this section may serve until the qualification of a United States Attorney for such district appointed by the President under section 541 of this title.

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joseph Stone, who directed two grand jury probes into the case, states that Enright described Stempel to him as " a disturbed person and a blackmailer " and denied ever giving Stempel advance questions and answers.

" A violation of the Act subjected such property to being ordered closed by the Attorney General-" padlocked "-against any use whatsoever for a period of up to one year, and any person found guilty of involvement in prohibited media activities could be incarcerated for three to thirteen months.

Whenever the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) has reason to believe that any person has violated 15 USC section 13, 14, 18 or 19, it must issue and serve on that person and on the Attorney General of the United States, a complaint stating its charges in that regard.

With his appointment as Attorney General Rush became the youngest person to serve as United States Attorney General.

In an agreement with the Attorney General of Ireland, he agreed to turn state's witness, and become the first person to enter the Republic of Ireland's witness protection programme.

The Attorney General is selected by the Government and acts as its advocate, and hence is not a neutral person.

Any person can act at the UK Patent Office, but the titles " Patent Agent ", " Patent Attorney " and " Registered Patent Attorney " ( which is synonymous with " Registered Patent Agent ") are reserved for those duly qualified.

Throughout Stryker's career he had been represented by notable attorneys such as Harry Wiess (" Attorney to the Stars ") and John Duran ( city council person of West Hollywood ).

Siegelman is the only person in the history of Alabama to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide elected offices: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor.

In his role as Attorney General Hood argued Section 124 of the Mississippi Constitution says any inmate seeking a pardon must publish their intentions 30 days in a newspaper in or near the county where the person was convicted and a on January 11, a Mississippi judge temporarily blocked the release of the 21 inmates who'd been given pardons or medical release.

Along with Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Fedor has also introduced the safe harbor bill, which would prevent a young person with being charged with prostitution if they were victims of human trafficking.