As a result, the Solicitor General tends to remain particularly comfortable during oral arguments that other advocates would find intimidating.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

In 1998, it became an independent public organisation, wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Government, with independence in setting monetary policy.

He dismissed judges who disagreed with him on this matter as well as the Solicitor General Heneage Finch.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

In 1897 he merged his growing London practice with that of Arthur Rhys Roberts ( who was to become Official Solicitor ) under the name of Lloyd George, Roberts and Co ..

Nixon's search for someone in the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General Robert Bork.

The attorney general may need to be distinguished from the Solicitor General, a high Justice Department official with the responsibility of representing the government before the Supreme Court.

He worked with Congress to create the Department of Justice and Office of Solicitor General, led by Attorney General Amos Akerman and the first Solicitor General Benjamin Bristow, who both prosecuted thousands of Klansmen under the Force Acts.

Since the replacement of the House of Lords with the Supreme Court the full title of a solicitor is now " Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales ".

Other than the justices themselves, the Solicitor General is among the most influential and knowledgeable members of the legal community with regard to Supreme Court litigation.

However, if the DOJ is the losing party at the trial stage, an appeal can only be brought with the permission of the Solicitor General.

If the government prevailed in the lower court but the Solicitor General disagrees with the result, he or she may confess error, after which the Supreme Court will vacate the lower court's ruling and send the case back for reconsideration.

In 1592 the Lord Chief Justice died and, according to custom the Attorney General, John Popham, succeeded him, with the Solicitor General, Thomas Egerton, succeeding Popham.

The current Commonwealth Solicitor General of Australia Stephen Gageler SC graduated from Harvard with an LL. M.

'" In 1986, after his resignation from the Solicitor General's officer, Lee was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer, but even cancer could not keep him from the Court.

If a person dies intestate with no identifiable heirs, the person's estate generally escheats ( i. e. is legally assigned ) to the Crown ( via the Bona vacantia division of the Treasury Solicitor ) or to the Duchies of Cornwall or Lancaster when the deceased was a resident of either ; in limited cases a discretionary distribution might be made by one of these bodies to persons who would otherwise be without entitlement under strict application of the rules of inheritance.

However, during the Whiskey Ring trials in 1876, Solicitor General Bluford Wilson claimed that Porter was involved with the scandal.

In 1887 Thomas Middleton, A Dublin Solicitor considered that yacht racing was becoming an excessively expensive activity, with boats becoming eclipsed by better designs each year.

He reaffirmed the extraordinary duty of the Solicitor General to address the Court with " absolute candor ," due to the " special credence " the Court explicitly grants to his court submissions.

It consists of a First Minister and other Ministers appointed by the Queen with the approval of the Parliament, including the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for Scotland.

While yachting with President Truman on Memorial Day in 1945, Truman asked Minton to accept an appointment to the position of Solicitor General of the United States.

Supreme Court cases are usually argued by the Solicitor General, but he disagreed with the government's position and refused to argue the case.

The First Minister also has the power to appoint the Chief Legal Officers of the Scottish Government-the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General but only with the support of the Scottish Parliament.

In June 1987, Philip Elman, a civil rights attorney who served as an associate in the Solicitor General's office during Harry Truman's term, claimed he and Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter were mostly responsible for the Supreme Court's decision, and stated that the NAACP's arguments did not present strong evidence.

A solicitor must additionally qualify as a Solicitor Advocate in order to acquire the same " higher rights " of audience as a barrister.

Paul Clement, Principal Deputy Solicitor General at the time, gave oral argument for the United States ( Rumsfeld ); law professor and human rights lawyer Jennifer Martinez gave oral argument on behalf of Padilla and Newman.

The certificate is prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) and signed by the Solicitor General of Canada, currently the Minister of Public Safety, and the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration when a non-citizen, either a permanent resident, refugee or foreign national located in Canada, is deemed to be inadmissible on the grounds that the subject is suspected to be a threat to national security, or has violated human rights abroad, or is involved with organized crime.

Samuel Field Phillips ( February 18, 1824-November 18, 1903 ) was a civil rights pioneer, lawyer, politician, and U. S. Solicitor General ( 1872 – 1885 ).

Council president Frank SanAntonio said yesterday he may ask the council to formally request Town Solicitor Michael A. Abatuno to draft the ordinance.

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.

Cases not argued by the Solicitor General may be argued by one of the assistants or another government attorney.

The term Solicitor General or Solicitor-General may refer to:

Under the Law Officers Act 1997, the Solicitor General may do anything on behalf of, or in the place of, the Attorney General, and vice versa.

* Confession of judgment: When used by the Solicitor General of the United States, it has the same effect as a nolle prosequi, but may be used in civil suits as well.

Police departments may be amalgamated at the discretion of the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General.

Or it may have been named in honor of Sir James Mansfield ( 1733-1821 ), Solicitor General of Canada in 1780, or William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield ( 1705-1793 ).

When the sole occupant of an official position is recused, the matter may be delegated to the official's deputy or to a temporarily designated official ; for example, when the Solicitor General of the United States is recused from a case, the Deputy Solicitor General will handle the matter in his place.

* Solicitor General of Canada, a role now performed by the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

It was the First Comptroller of the Treasury ( 1817 – 20 ), the Agent of the Treasury ( 1820 – 30 ), and Solicitor of the Treasury ( 1830 – 1934 ), and is now the Office of the General Counsel.

He subsequently served as Solicitor General of Canada ( 1985 – 1986 ), Defence Minister ( 1986 – 1989 ), Minister of National Health and Welfare ( 1989 – 1991 ), and the now defunct position of Minister of Communications ( 1991 – 1993 ).

He was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and now works as a solicitor in Sydney.

In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General for the George H. W. Bush Administration where he served with now Chief Justice John G. Roberts.

The offices of the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court and the Public Trustee are now housed in one office building, but they continue to have separate functions.

In 1736 Grant wrote a pamphlet Remarks on the State of the Church of Scotland with respect to Patronages, and with reference to a Bill now depending before Parliament, On 20 June 1737 he succeeded Charles Erskine of Tinwald as Solicitor General, and on 28 August in the following year was constituted one of the commissioners for improving the fisheries and manufactures of Scotland.