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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.
Nominated by the UK to serve as an Advocate General from 10 January 2006, this was renewed in 2009 and again in 2015. On 7 October 2008, she was appointed First Advocate General of the CJEU for one year. [citation needed] In 2010, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Glasgow. [11]
The People's Advocate (Albanian: Avokati i Popullit) is the Albanian office of the ombudsman, a justice-advising entity to the public. [2] Established for the first time in the Albanian Constitution of 1998, it was enacted into law with minor amendments by the Albanian parliament on February 4, 1999. The People's Advocate as an institution ...
Advocate Richard Sanderson Keen, Baron Keen of Elie PC , KC (born 29 March 1954) is a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He was Advocate General for Scotland from May 2015 until his resignation on 16 September 2020.
Stewart was appointed Advocate General for Scotland on 15 October 2020 after the position had been vacant for a month. [3] He was created Baron Stewart of Dirleton , of Dirleton in the County of East Lothian , on 6 November 2020, and was introduced to the House of Lords on 9 November 2020.
The office of Advocate General for Scotland was created in 1999 by the Scotland Act 1998 to be the chief legal adviser to the United Kingdom Government on Scots law. This function had previously been carried out by the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General for Scotland , who were transferred to the Scottish Government on the establishment of the ...
Solicitor advocate is a hybrid status which allows a solicitor in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong to represent clients in higher courts in proceedings that were traditionally reserved for barristers. The status does not exist in most other common law jurisdictions where, for the most part, all solicitors have rights of audience in higher courts.
Advocate can open own cabinet after at least 3 years legal practice in collegium or bureau. An advocate, who has opened own cabinet, can not be the member of any advocate's juridical person, and an advocate, who is the member of one advocate's juridical person, can not be the member of any other advocate's juridical person.