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	Attorney General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 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.
		The Attorney General's deputy is the Solicitor General
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attorney_general (1641 words)

	Indian Attorney General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Attorney General of India is the Indian government's chief legal advisor, and its primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.
		The Office of the Attorney General was created by the Constitution of India, and Attorneys General have the right to participate in the proceedings of the Parliament, though not to vote.
		Unlike the Attorney General of the United States, the Attorney General of India does not have any executive authority, and is not a political appointee; those functions are performed by the Law Minister of India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attorney_General_of_India (296 words)

	Attorney General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Attorney General is the chief officer of the Crown.
		The Attorney General of India is the government's chief legal advisor and its primary lawyer in with the Supreme Court of India.
		Attorney General of the United States the Attorney General of India does have executive authority and is not a government minister ; those functions are performed by the Minister of India.
	www.freeglossary.com /Attorney_General (845 words)

	CONSTITUTION OF SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
		As India is a land of diversities, local customs and conventions which are not against statute, morality, etc. are to a limited extent also recognised and taken into account by Courts while administering justice in certain spheres.
		The Attorney General for India is appointed by the President of India under Article 76 of the Constitution and holds office during the pleasure of the President.
		It is the duty of the Attorney General for India to give advice to the Government of India upon such legal matters and to perform such other duties of legal character as may be referred or assigned to him by the President.
	supremecourtofindia.nic.in /new_s/constitution.htm (1587 words)

	Attorney General's appearance in court in "personal capacity" was improper
		India's Attorney General, Sorabjee should not have played the contradictory role of "running with the bear and hunting with the hound" said here today High Court's senior advocate and president of the U.P. Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Ravi Kiran Jain.
		Since the Attorney General did not agree with the view of the government that the right of the minorities to run education institutions was restricted, he abstained from arguing in support of the government's stand before the Supreme Court.
		In other words, Jain said, Attorney General Sorabjee was bound by the Constitution to place before the apex court the Union government's views on the "real character" of the right guaranteed to the minorities to run educational institutions.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Law/2002/sorabjee.htm (422 words)

	India's attorney general to speak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		India's Prevention of Terrorism Act was enacted in 2002 in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
		He was a special reporter to the U.N. General Assembly on the human rights situation in Nigeria in 1997 and a personal envoy to the U.N. high commissioner for human rights for East Timor, reporting on the human rights situation in that country in 1999.
		He was solicitor general of India from 1977 to 1980 before becoming attorney general, first in 1989 and 1990 and then from 1998 to the present.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/03/9.25.03/Sorabjee_lect.html (406 words)

	India’s Constitutional Discourse: Some Unanswered Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The history of India’s constitutional evolution, alternating between adaptations in the periods of social stasis and episodic deviations from the established norms, is well documented, and we shall not go into their details here.
		Once the basis of India’s unity in the division of powers and the communal safeguards was dissolved, a strong center by itself was inadequate to eliminate the civil strife, disunity and confusion that are rooted in the heterogeneous nature of the Indian society.
		India’s Attorney General, also a member of the Review Commission, clarifies that the objective of the exercise is to enlarge the fundamental rights of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution.
	www.punjabjustice.org /articles/html/Constitution.htm (7562 words)

	Biographies of the Attorneys General
		Butler was district attorney of Albany County from 1821 to 1824.
		Crittenden was attorney general of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1810.
		Rogers served as Deputy Attorney General from 1953 to 1957 and was appointed Attorney General of the United States on November 8, 1957, by President Eisenhower.
	www.usdoj.gov /jmd/ls/agbiographies.htm (12842 words)

	India: Examination of second periodic report by the Human Rights Committee: recommendations to bring Indian laws and ...
		The Attorney General said in response that the use of firearms was not authorized to break up any assembly of five or more persons at random, but only if the assembly had already been declared illegal under an order by a magistrate, although he did not specify the legal authority for this.
		He responded in general terms by saying that India had a legitimate concern to preserve its territorial integrity, that the courts established under the Act were perhaps the most impartial of all Indian courts and that an ordinary court could not deal with problems such as the intimidation of witnesses.
		The Attorney General said that prisoners were nevertheless protected against torture because strict regulations were in force regarding the treatment of prisoners, and because the protection of life and personal liberty in Article 21 of the Constitution included, in the Supreme Court's view, the right to peace and human dignity.
	www.amnestyusa.org /education/document.do?id=EBB49CEF05F0F35C802569A600602FD1 (7887 words)

	The Secretary-General's Statements
		I think this is one of the remarkable developments in India – the vibrancy of your society and of the civil society.
		I hope India will continue to assist other countries, particularly in the south, assist them with their development by exporting the knowledge and technology it has acquired through its own success.
		India, a number of times, through the ILO, had proposed the establishment of an international skills development fund, with a view to emphasize the removal of poverty, because without skills development, the one dollar question cannot adequately be tackled; it is a link with primary education.
	www.un.org /apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=1422 (4900 words)

	PI: Pakistan v. India - Judgment - Jurisdiction of the Court - 21 June 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		India's communication of 18 September 1974 that it has never been party to the General Act as an independent State - Communication to be considered in the circumstances of the present case as having served the same legal ends as notification of denunciation under Article 45 of the General Act.
		India accordingly concluded that the challenge to the validity of the reservation had no legal basis, that the reservation in question was a classical reservation ratione personae, that it was "stated in unambiguous terms", and that it "involve[d] no subversion of Article 36, paragraph 6, or any other provision of the Statute".
		India also queried the correctness of the theory of "extra-statutory" reservations put forward by Pakistan, pointing out that "[any] State against which the reservation [were] invoked, [could] escape from it by merely stating that it [was] extra-statutory in character".
	www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idocket/ipi/ipi_judgment/iPI_iJudgment_20000621_Jurisdiction.htm (7347 words)

	The Hindu : He put precept into practice
		SOLI SORABJEE, Attorney General, Government of India, delivered the first Palkhivala Memorial Lecture under the auspices of the Nani Palkhivala Foundation, in the city this past week.
		Union of India, this legal heresy, which has a restrictive, indeed a pernicious effect, on the development of constitutional law was given a long-awaited burial.
		He felt that the action of the Government of India apart from being unconstitutional was in breach of constitutional morality".
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/mp/2003/02/25/stories/2003022500010100.htm (684 words)

	India Casteism is the Mother of Racism StrategyPage.com
		India's Attorney General Soli J. Sorabjee, who earlier wrote about his interest in keeping his toilet the way he wants has come out with some more surprises.
		Thus, the Attorney General has reason to advise himself that world opinion is different to his and that he must now play the game according to the rule.
		If the Attorney General is honest in saying of caste discrimination: "it is undeniable that despite constitutional and legal provisions caste based discrimination in our country persists and is pervasive and strong effective measures are needed to stamp out this evil", what is his objection to a discussion of it?
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/72-2048.asp (695 words)

	Milon Banerji appointed Attorney General of India
		Banerji has also served as solicitor general from 1986 to 1989, while from 1979 to 1986 he was the additional solicitor general.
		During his first term as AG after being appointed for the post on November 24, 1992, Banerji appeared in the Ayodhya case before the Supreme Court, where he cautioned the apex court that the situation had grave and inaction by the court would make create an irreversible situation, forcing the court with a fait accompli.
		Another landmark judgement, also related to the Ayodhya dispute, was the M Ismail Faruqui versus Union of India case in which the apex court upheld the validity of the acquisition of certain areas around the disputed site.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/jun/05attorney.htm (305 words)

	Strike is an invaluable right: Attorney General - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		New Delhi: Attorney General Soli J Sorabjee came out strongly against the Supreme Court ruling on right to strike, saying its observations that government employees have "no moral or equitable right to go on strike" were "uncalled for" and "beyond comprehension".
		Taking an overall view of the working conditions in India, the Attorney General said "there can be horrendous situations in which the employees have no effective mechanism for redressal of their grievances and are left with no option but to resort to strike."
		Referring to the apex Court Judgement virtually banning strikes by lawyers, the Attorney General said even in the case of lawyers, while deprecating indiscriminate strikes, the Court had recognised there could be rare and exceptional situations where a strike for a short duration could be permissible.
	sify.com /news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13221984 (462 words)

	Judicial Justice In India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There was an instance when summons issued by the Mumbai High Court to the attorney general of India came back with the remark "addressee not found".
		With all the glib talk we hear these days about India being on the verge of becoming an economic superpower we forget that this will remain a foolish dream as long as we have courts that look as if they remain frozen in a hundred years of solitude".
		India has a Western system of justice and rule of law that it inherited from the British.
	www.paktribune.com /news/print.php?id=107663 (778 words)

	The Advocates Act, 1961 by Delhi Lawyer Attorney Advocate, India Lawyer Attorney Advocate, Free Legal Advice, Free ...
		His primary allegiance is to the Court and it is no part of the professional duties of an Advocate to act merely as a mouth-piece of this client.
		Law Graduate — From definition of “Law Graduate” adopted by the statute, it does not follow that the Bar Council of India is under a compulsion to accept degrees of law of all universities as sufficient qualification for admission on the roll of Advocates under Section 24.
		[(3) the Bar Council of India may receive any grants, donations, gifts or benefactions for all or any of the purposes specified in sub-section (2) which shall be credited to the appropriate fund or funds constituted under that sub-section].
	members.tripod.com /delhiadvocate/disclaimer/advocate_act.html (3682 words)

	JAIN COMMISSION REPORT VOL I Chapter V
		Shri K. Subramanian, Advocate General for the State of Tamil Nadu and counsels for the other parties also submit that let the written submissions and the application be filed and it is only thereafter that they will be in a position to place their views and contentions.
		The application, which was to be submitted by the Attorney General, was to take a clear stand as to whether the Government wants or does not want this Commission to inquire into the areas covered by the investigation conducted by the SIT culminating into the chargesheet.
		5.29 In retrospect, it was the then Attorney General of India who first objected to the jurisdiction of the Commission when he contended before the Commission on 27.9.1992 that the Commission has no jurisdiction to probe the areas covered by the SIT chargesheet.
	www.india-today.com /jain/vol1/chap5.html (5355 words)

	General Studies
		The Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Shanta Sinha is known as (a) a campaigner for urban sanitation (b) an anti-child labour activist (c) an organizer of rain-water harvesting schemes (d) an activist for the welfare of poor rural women 67.
		Param Padma, which was in news recently, is (a) a new Civilian Award instituted by the Government of India (b) the name of supercomputer developed by India (c) the name given to a proposed network of canals linking northern and southern rivers of India (d) a software programme to facilitate e-governance in Madhya Pradesh 74.
		Subsidies on PDS kerosene and domestic LPG are borne by Consolidated Fund of India.
	geocities.com /indiancivilservices/GSPrelims2004withanswer.htm (7030 words)

	rediff.com Special: Dr Subhash C Kashyap defines the President's role
		All the high functionaries of the State, including judges of the Supreme Court and high courts, the attorney general of India, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the governors, ambassadors, etc, are appointed by the President.
		The President has the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person in all cases where the punishment has been awarded by a court martial, is for an offence against a Union law or is a sentence of death.
		The President may proclaim a state of Emergency in the whole or part of India if he is satisfied that a grave situation exists whereby the security of India or part of its territory is threatened by war, external aggression, or armed rebellion.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/2002/jul/16spec.htm (923 words)

	Photo - Perspective on India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		India Attorney General Soli Sorabjee, left, takes part in a South Asia seminar at Cornell's Einaudi Center for International Studies in Uris Hall, Oct. 1.
		Strengths he pointed to are India's constitution, bill of rights, free press and independent judiciary.
		A new Prevention of Terrorism Act helps protect against terrorist acts, such as the attack on India's Parliament last December, while at the same time people's basic human rights and freedoms are protected, Sorabjee said.
	www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.n/Chronicle/03/10.9.03/photo-India_atty_gen.html (157 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The Supreme Court today issued notices to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalitha, the Union Government and the Attorney-General of India on a bunch of petitions raising the question whether a person disqualified from contesting elections could be appointed as chief minister.
		Ms Jayalalitha, who was disqualified by the returning officers from contesting elections in view of her conviction in a corruption case, was appointed as the Chief Minister on May 14 by Governor Fathima Beevi after her party won majority.
		The party’s General Council which met here for the first time after the DMK’s debacle in last month’s Assembly elections, said the Governor’s action of appointing Ms Jayalalitha who had been disqualified from contesting the elections in view of her conviction in a corruption case was a “serious violation” of the Constitution.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010605/main5.htm (396 words)

	Sorabjee lauds SC verdict in Bakery case - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Attorney General of India Soli J Sorabjee on Sunday lauded the recent Supreme Court verdict in the Best Bakery case saying it upheld rule of law in the country.
		Admitting that there was misuse of PIL’s, the Attorney General, however, termed as “obnoxious”, voices in favour of a total ban on them.
		Ahmed, former Chief Justice of India A S Ahmadi, Solicitor General Kirit Raval, Addl Solicitor Generals Raju Ramachandran and L Nageshwar Rao and Senior Advocates V R Reddy and V Laxmikumaran were among others presented with the title of “great legal luminary” at the function.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr192004/n4.asp (349 words)

	BPCL, HPCL divestment raises heat in Lok Sabha
		They demanded Attorney General of India Soli J Sorabjee to be summoned before the House after the reply by Divestment Minister Arun Shourie that the attorney general had said that parliamentary legislation, sanction or approval was not necessary to for the "in principle" policy decision of divestment in these undertakings.
		Is the government agreeable to the attorney general to appear before the House and give his opinion, which he had given on divestment in HPCL and BPCL?"
		The primary rationale behind this was that the objective of divestment was to put national assets to optimal use and to maximise the productive potential inherent in public sector and ownership of one PSU by another PSU defeats that objective, he said.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/2003/feb/19par1.htm (558 words)

	Attorney-General does not favour curbing minority rights, The Milli Gazette, Vol.3 No.16, MG62 (16-31 Aug 02)
		Attorney-General of India, Soli Jehangir Sorabjee, submitted before the Supreme Court on July 25 that the rights granted to minorities under Article 30 of the Constitution to establish and administer their educational institutions was absolute, and therefore beyond the purview of the interference of any outside agency.
		Besides, regulations could also be made that would serve the interests of students and teachers and preserve uniformity in standards among the affiliated institutions, he said.
		The Attorney-General’s submission stood in bold contrast to the submission made by Solicitor-General of India Harish Salve on July 16, on the issue.
	www.milligazette.com /Archives/15082002/1508200249.htm (897 words)

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