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Attorney and Solicitor General - Picture UK Parliament The Attorney General's Office (AGO) provides high quality legal and strategic policy advice and support to the Attorney General and the Solicitor General (the Law Officers).

The Attorney General

  • is Chief Legal Adviser to the Crown;
  • is a Minister of the Crown with responsibility for superintending the prosecuting departments, and
  • has a number of independent public interest functions.

The Attorney General also holds the separate office of Advocate General for Northern Ireland. The Advocate General for Scotland is the UK Law Officer with specific responsibility for Scots law matters.

On this website you can find publications, news releases, information about us and on our work and contact details. Financial information can be found via the Guide to Information.

Links to the organisations the Attorney General superintends are in the green panel.

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25 April 2012

Attorney General and CPS Chief Crown Prosecutor welcome sentence increase for London rioter

Statement from the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP and from the Chief Crown Proseuctor of London, Alison Saunders, on the unduly lenient sentence increase of London rioter Adam Khan Ahmadzai

20 March 2012

Work and Pensions and Health prosecutors to join Crown Prosecution Service

The Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP has agreed to transfer the conduct of prosecutions from the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health to the Crown Prosecution Service.

03 February 2012

Solicitor General welcomes strong message from Court of Appeal

The Solicitor General, Edward Garnier QC MP, today welcomed the doubling of the prison sentence originally given to 23 year old Zephen Rollings for possession of a loaded firearm with intent to enable another to endanger life, from five to 10 years.

01 February 2012

Sentences of Dobson and Norris not to be referred to Court of Appeal

After careful review, the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, has decided not to refer the sentences of Gary Dobson and David Norris to the Court of Appeal as possibly unduly lenient.

24 January 2012

Civil Service People Survey - AGO results

The Attorney General's Ofiice hightlight report for the 2011 Civil Service People Survey

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