`` Mr. Gross, concerning the formation of your Committee, there's the fact that you have been a legal adviser to the U.N. in the past ; ;

* Attorney general, the principal legal adviser to a government

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

To assist him in legal matters he had an adviser, the legatus iuridicus, and those in Britain appear to have been distinguished lawyers perhaps because of the challenge of incorporating tribes into the imperial system and devising a workable method of taxing them.

Two decades later in 1592, he began his study of philosophy and law in Ingolstadt, after which he moved to Augsburg to begin work as a lawyer, eventually becoming legal adviser to the city council there.

In 1612, he became legal adviser to the Augsburg city council.

Other talented individuals included Tribonian, his legal adviser ; Peter the Patrician, the diplomat and longtime head of the palace bureaucracy ; his finance ministers John the Cappadocian and Peter Barsymes, who managed to collect taxes more efficiently than any before, thereby funding Justinian's wars ; and finally, his prodigiously talented generals Belisarius and Narses.

In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I's reign, he became the adsessor ( legal adviser ) for Belisarius, Justinian's chief military commander who was then beginning a brilliant career.

Britain accepted the Bahraini claim over Abdullah bin Jassim's objections, in large part because the Bahraini shaykh's personal British adviser was able to frame Bahrain's case in a legal manner familiar to British officials.

Giacomo Lacaita, legal adviser to the British embassy, was imprisoned by the Neapolitan government, as were other political dissidents.

Hugh Gibson ; Maitre G. de Leval, the legal adviser to the United States legation ; and Marquis de Villalobar, the Spanish minister, formed a midnight deputation of appeal for mercy or at least postponement of sentence.

The Office of the General Counsel is charged with supervising all legal proceedings involving the collection of debts due the United States, establishing regulations to guide customs collectors, issuing distress warrants against delinquent revenue collectors or receivers of public money, examining Treasury officers ' official bonds and related legal documents, serving as legal adviser to the department and administered lands acquired by the United States in payment for debts.

The Secretary for Justice, known as the Attorney General before the Transfer of the Sovereignty in 1997, is the legal adviser to the Hong Kong Government and heads the Department of Justice.

The Attorney General of Ireland is the legal adviser to the Government and is therefore the chief law officer of the State.

Also the English A-G has no direct equivalent, as the function of legal adviser to the government does not exist as such, and we find part of it responsibilities in the Avvocato Generale dello Stato, who is in charge of representing the State in any civil, criminal or administrative lawsuit, but not in charge of prosecution.

In Kiribati, the Attorney General is defined by section 42 of the Constitution as " the principal legal adviser to the Government ".

In Malaysia the Attorney-General or Peguam Negara ( as he is referred to in Bahasa Malaysia ) is the principal legal adviser to the Government.

In Nepal, the Attorney General is the chief legal adviser of Government of Nepal as well as its chief public prosecutor.

The Attorney-General of Pakistan is the legal adviser to the government of the Pakistan and its public prosecutor.

In Samoa, the Attorney General is the legal adviser to the government.

The Attorney-General of Singapore is the legal adviser to the government of the Republic of Singapore and its public prosecutor.

The Attorney-General of Sri Lanka is the chief legal adviser of the Government of Sri Lanka and head of the Attorney-General department which is the public prosecutor.

Under the Government of Wales Act 2006, the Counsel General is the chief legal adviser to the Welsh Assembly Government.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.

Although much of his legal reform proposals were not established in his life time, his legal legacy was considered by the magazine New Scientist, in a publication of 1961, as having influenced the drafting of the Code Napoleon, and the law reforms introduced by Sir Robert Peel.

" The legal culture of Elizabethan England, exemplified by Sir Edward Coke, was " steeped in Ciceronian rhetoric.

Sir John Fortescue stressed " the supreme importance of the law of God and of nature " in works that " profoundly influenced the course of legal development in the following centuries.

Many of his government ’ s reforms were due to his Minister for Justice, John Maddison, and Attorney-General Sir Kenneth McCaw, who initiated the establishment of the Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the introduction of consumer laws, an ombudsman, legal aid, health labels on cigarette packs, breath-testing of drivers, limits on vehicle emissions, the liberalisation of liquor laws, and compensation for victims of violent crime.

* With much legal strife and the encouragement of Sir Francis Bacon, Chief Justice Edward Coke is dismissed from the King's Bench, and the royal prerogatives of King James I triumph over English common law.

Sir Jacob died in 1764, and as the other named heirs had also died, the college should have come into existence then, but Sir Jacob's widow, Margaret, refused to give up the estates and the various relatives who were Sir George's legal heirs had to take costly and prolonged action in the Court of Chancery to compel her to do so.

This decree was issued by the new king and unanimously supported by the Dominion governments, The king's authority to withhold from the lawful wife of a prince the attribute thitherto accorded to the wives of other modern British princes was addressed by the Crown's legal authorities: On 14 April 1937, Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell submitted to Home Secretary Sir John Simon a memorandum summarising the views of Lord Advocate T. M. Cooper, Parliamentary Counsel Sir Granville Ram, and himself:

English Deputy Sir John Perrot had ordered the legal establishment of " Leitrim County " a half-century prior, in 1565.

The governor, Sir Philip Game, wrote to Lang, warning him that ministers were breaking the law, and warning that if they continued, he would have to obtain ministers who could carry on government within legal bounds.

" Following Stanton, Thomas M ' Clintock read several passages from Sir William Blackstone's laws, to expose for the audience the basis of woman's current legal condition of servitude to man.

The son of Sir Michael Balfour of Montquhanny, he was educated for the legal branch of the Church of Scotland.

There was a dispute about the legal ownership of the estate between Sir Charles and Alexander Fitton, which seemed to be settled by 1663.

Randolph Crewe | Sir Randolph Crewe, the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who was dismissed by Charles I of England | Charles I for refusing to declare the " forced loans " legal.

Davenant once again found himself in legal trouble in 1659, when he was imprisoned for his part in Sir George Booth's uprising in Cheshire.

Sir Richard Shee, a legal advisor to the Duke of Ormonde, died in 1608.

In referring to this code, Sir Henry Maine spoke of Livingston as “ the first legal genius of modern times ”.

After the nomination of the new High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor to succeed Lord Plumer in December 1928, the question was re-examined, and in February 1929 legal opinion established that the mandatory authority was within its powers to intervene to ensure Jewish rights of access and prayer.

Several barrister members have gone on to be highly important, including Edward Marshall-Hall, and legal academics have also been members, such as Sir John Baker.