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	Attorney General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Australia the Attorney-General is the chief law officer of the Crown and a member of the Cabinet.
		In the Isle of Man, Her Majesty's Attorney General is a Crown appointment and Mr Attorney sits in the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man, 'ex officio'.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attorney_General (1817 words)

	CAT Report - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		All new prison officers in England and Wales receive a nine-week training course, in which they are taught the extent of their authority and are given detailed guidance on what behaviour is appropriate in dealing with prisoners; they also receive instruction on how to control and restrain prisoners in an approved manner.
		Immigration Service officers engaged in law enforcement work and in the detention of persons held under the provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 receive training in the extent and proper exercise of their powers and in racial awareness.
		The purpose of the Codes is to ensure that police officers act at all times with due respect for the rights of persons in custody, having regard for any special needs, whilst at the same time complying with their obligations to prevent escapes and investigate crime.
	www.law.wits.ac.za /humanrts/cat/uk1996.html (8371 words)

	CLO - About Us - Law Officers of the Crown
		The first role is that of the senior Law Officer of the Crown with principal responsibility for the Government’s administration of the law.
		The second is that of a Minister of the Crown with ministerial responsibility for the Crown Law Office, the Serious Fraud Office and the Parliamentary Counsel Office.
		As the non-political Law Officer, the Solicitor-General has traditionally assumed responsibility for the exercise of those functions that should be undertaken independently of the political process, most notably the prosecution functions.
	www.crownlaw.govt.nz /pagepub/docs/about/officers.asp (413 words)

	Sunlight and Disinfectants: Prosecutorial Accountability and Independence Through Public Transparency
		Ministers endorsed the principles already observed in their jurisdictions that the discretion in these matters should also be exercised in accordance with wide considerations of the public interest, and without regard to considerations of a party political nature, and that it should be free from any direction or control whatsoever.
		It does not mean that an individual Crown Attorney, in the discharge of his or her responsibilities as agent of the Attorney General, is free to do whatever he or she wishes, irrespective of the law, practice or the general guidelines or policies of the Attorney General.
		Most Crown Solicitors are practitioners who have been drawn from the private sector, and who discharge their responsibilities of office under a Warrant through the employment of staff lawyers in their firms as Crown Prosecutors.
	canadiancriminallaw.com /articles/sunlight_article.htm (7779 words)

	Jewish Law - Commentary/Opinion - Three Days of Riots Forgotten: Political Will in Short Supply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One such event was the pogrom-like rioting on the streets of Crown Heights in the summer of 1991.
		America is a society of laws, where criminal activity is punished and legal redress is available for illegal harm.
		Members of the Crown Heights Jewish community are asking this very question in a civil lawsuit they have filed against various city officials they accuse of negligence or worse in carrying out their law enforcement responsibilities.
	www.jlaw.com /Commentary/3dayriot.html (976 words)

	Schlesinger, Colonial Appeals to the Privy Council. Pt. I
		To the crown this appellate control afforded a means of preventing important changes in colonial law without the consent of the mother country; and it also served the purpose of correcting judgments given in the colonial courts to the disadvantage of the crown.
		This doctrine was plainly enunciated, in 1701, in the opinion of the law officers of the crown, elicited by the refusal of Connecticut to permit appeals;
		In this later law the provisions of the earlier law as to the security to be furnished by the appellant was retained.
	www.dinsdoc.com /schlesinger-1.htm (5513 words)

	Review of Financial Regulation in the Crown Dependencies - Part 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Preliminary contact and advice is often sought from the Law Officers and given by them on both the form of the Letter of Request and the procedure to be followed.
		As noted in earlier chapters, the Law Officers of the Crown are appointed by the Crown.
		The decision of a Law Officer to prosecute an offence in the Bailiwick Courts is based on public policy considerations and prosecution criteria identical to those applicable in England and Wales.
	www.archive.official-documents.co.uk /document/cm41/4109/c-chap16.htm (2062 words)

	Law Officers of the Crown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Law Officers of the Crown are the chief legal advisors to the Crown, and advise and represent the various governments in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms.
		In England and Wales, and most Commonwealth and colonial governments, the Law Officer of the Crown is the Attorney General.
		The Attorney General for England and Wales is the chief legal adviser of the Crown in England and Wales and a member of the Government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_Officers_of_the_Crown (548 words)

	Alden v Maine
		The dissenting opinion seeks to reopen these precedents, contending that state sovereign immunity must derive either from the common law (in which case the dissent contends it is defeasible by statute) or from natural law (in which case the dissent believes it cannot bar a federal claim).
		The States and their officers are bound by obligations imposed by the Constitution and by federal statutes that comport with the constitutional design.
		Even a suit for money damages may be prosecuted against a state officer in his individual capacity for unconstitutional or wrongful conduct fairly attributable to the officer himself, so long as the relief is sought not from the state treasury but from the officer personally.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/alden.html (4160 words)

	Solicitor-General - LoveToKnow 1911
		SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in England, one of the law officers of the crown, appointed by letters patent.
		His duties are practically the same as those of the attorney-general, to whom he is subordinate, and whose business and authority would devolve upon him in case of a vacancy in the office.
		He receives a salary of £¦000 a year, in addition to fees for any litigious business he may conduct on behalf of the crown.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Solicitor-General (142 words)

	Page 266. Rhodes, James Ford. 1917. History of the Civil War, 1861–1865
		The papers received from the Commissioners of Customs and those which Adams had sent to Russell were submitted to the law officers of the Crown, one set reaching them July 23, the other July 26; that is to say, they reached the senior officer, the Queen’s Advocate, on those days.
		Sir John Harding, who was then the Queen’s Advocate, had been ill and incapacitated for business since the latter part of June; in fact, his excitable nerves and weak constitution had succumbed to the strain of work, and he was now verging on insanity.
		The collector had referred the matter to the Commissioners; the Commissioners had referred it to the Lords of the Treasury; the Lords and Earl Russell had referred it to the law officers of the Crown.
	www.bartleby.com /252/pages/page266.html (374 words)

	English Coroner System Part 1: Origins
		The word "sheriff" is derived from "shire-reeve," the King's law officer responsible for each shire or county.
		Archbishop Walter was well aware of this and resolved to set up a new network of law officers who would be independent of the Sheriffs and who could act as a check upon their rapacity.
		The keeping of the pleas of the Crown was the source of the title, the original Latin was "custos placitorum coronas" from which the word "coroner" is derived.
	www.britannia.com /history/coroner1.html (2003 words)

	Chapter I
		It was only when they went to register the new tenancies that the law officers of the Crown laid bare the cruel fact that to provide a landless Native with accommodation was forbidden under a penalty of £100, or six months' imprisonment.
		The complication of this cruel law is made manifest by the fact that it was found necessary for a high officer of the Government to tour the Provinces soon after the Act came into force, with the object of "teaching" Magistrates how to administer it.
		The study of this law required a much longer time than the lawyers, unless specially briefed, could devote to it, so that they hardly knew what all the trouble was about.
	www.anc.org.za /books/nlife01.htm (2596 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Six officers were convicted of violence against the person (two as a result of a complaint), two being imprisoned.
		Two officers were convicted of perjury, one (convicted as a result of a complaint) being imprisoned.
		Of the cases that did not proceed to a disciplinary hearing, the majority resulted in counselling by a senior officer, a number were found to be unsubstantiated and in some cases the officer resigned before disciplinary procedures were completed.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/uk1996.html (9751 words)

	International Law and International Relations:United Kingdom Practice
		Any consideration of the part played by international law in the conduct of the United Kingdom's international relations requires some preliminary description of the way in which both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its legal advisers are organised.
		First, while the FCO legal advisers are the source of legal advice to the FCO, the ultimate and authoritative source of legal advice on international law as well as English law to the British Government is the Attorney-General and his Ministerial colleagues, together known as the Law Officers of the Crown.
		It is also worth noting that in the United Kingdom, the Attorney-General and the other Law Officers, in addition to being professionally qualified and experienced as lawyers, are Ministers in the Government and Members of Parliament rather than civil servants.
	www.ejil.org /journal/Vol2/No1/art13.html (1785 words)

	Prince Charles - Cope's Alarm
		In pursuance of this resolution he ordered a camp to be formed at Stirling, and required all the officers who were absent from their regiments, to repair to their respective posts.
		Their lordships seem not to have been aware of the causes which retarded his march, not the least of which was the want of money, a credit for which did not arrive till the 17th of August.
		At this meeting, Cope laid before his officers the orders he had received from the secretary of state to march to the north, which were too positive to be departed from without the most urgent necessity.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/charles/11.htm (1173 words)

	Picturesque Atlas 1886 - Historical Sketch of Tasmania Part 4 - Modern Tasmania
		The Speaker issued his warrant for the arrest of the recalcitrant functionary, who, fortified by the opinion of the law officers of the Crown, firmly resisted its execution and served a writ of habeas corpus both upon the Speaker and the sergeant-at-arms.
		These included the imposition and expenditure of the necessary taxation, the absolute control of the crown lands of the colony, and the management of public affairs by a responsible Ministry, selected from, and removable by the representatives of the people.
		It was a conflict between the law and the determination of a local community.
	www.geocities.com /toby_meares/100.htm (1636 words)

	Osgood, England and the Colonies
		The enterprises of discovery were fitted out under the patronage of the crown; the territories discovered or visited were taken possession of in its name; and grants of land, of rights of government and trade, were made to actual settlers by the kings.
		As the king was by the theory of English law feudal proprietor of England, so he became proprietor of colonial territory, though that territory was granted out in socage, one of the freest forms of English tenure.
		All doubt of the right of England to extend her statute law over them was removed in the case of Wales by the acts 27, 34, and 37 Henry VIII; and in the case of Ireland by the Poynings acts, to Henry VII.
	www.dinsdoc.com /osgood-4.htm (9762 words)

	Police and Public Prosecutions
		That arrangement is by no means satisfactory as Crown Counsel are representatives of the Attorney-General and their functions too have to be discharged with the same detachment as is expected of the Attorney-General.
		We understand that until about a year ago Crown Counsel functioning as legal advisers to the Police were accommodated in the offices of the Police Department, and came to be regarded as members of the Department.
		So long as a Crown Counsel retains his connection with the Attorney-General's Department, his professional activities should not be directed in such a manner as to create the false impression that he is in truth a “Police lawyer”.
	www.ahrchk.net /pub/mainfile.php/police_reform/127 (2959 words)

	Reference re Secession of
		805-6, "[t]he 'rule of law' is a highly textured expression, importing many things which are beyond the need of these reasons to explore but conveying, for example, a sense of orderliness, of subjection to known legal rules and of executive accountability to legal authority".
		At its most basic level, the rule of law vouchsafes to the citizens and residents of the country a stable, predictable and ordered society in which to conduct their affairs.
		The democracy principle, as we have emphasized, cannot be invoked to trump the principles of federalism and rule of law, the rights of individuals and minorities, or the operation of democracy in the other provinces or in Canada as a whole.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/canlaw/Secession.html (14492 words)

	Biographies
		In the Secessionist Congress at Montgomery, Senator Toombs, one of the spokesmen of the South, strikingly formulated the economic law that commands the constant expansion of the territory of slavery.
		On the one hand, it admits that the law officers of the Crown have reduced the accusation against the United States to a mere mistake in procedure, to a technical error.
		One sees, therefore, that the law officers of the English Crown reduced the point of contention to a mere error in procedure, not an error in re, but an error in forma, because, actually, no material violation of law is to hand.
	www.aotc.net /Marxen.htm (13882 words)

	LLMC - Common Law Abroad - Post 2001
		90-118; Of the prerogatives of the Crown, pp.
		Then the property laws for each jurisdiction are discussed separately, along with detailed descriptions of the constitutions and judicial systems of the jurisdiction as they existed in 1827.
		The new revision, which was debated in a special fourteen day session by the full legislature, materially altered "the law affecting corporations, officers and others in possession of personal property the title to which is in dispute between third parties, and the partition of lands held jointly or in common.
	www.llmc.com /common_law_abroad_post.htm (11241 words)

	H-Net Review: Allyson N. May on The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial
		Law officers of the Crown prosecuted those accused of treason, and from the Middle Ages any violent or suspicious death was investigated by the coroner, who convened a jury to assist him.
		Lawyers could in theory be called upon to argue a point of law, but they were forbidden to speak to the facts for the defense in felony trials.
		According to the strict letter of the law, the prohibition against defense counsel in felony trials remained in effect, but by the mid-1730s the bench had taken the "epochal decision" to permit their presence, although their courtroom activities were restricted.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=257131081146921 (1182 words)

	The Anglo-American Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The law officers of the Crown had yesterday to give their opinion on the naval incident in the Bahama Channel.
		The law officers of the Crown appear to hold this view, for they have dropped the material legal question entirely.
		However that may be, the whole conflict is reduced by this opinion of the law officers of the Crown to a technical error and consequently deprived of any immediate import.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1861/12/03.htm (893 words)

	The Crabtree Judgement
		For people who have no qualms about taking direct action and breaking the law when it suits them, the appellants have curiously high expectations of what the law ought to be doing for them.
		But, in law, it seems to this Court that it is largely irrelevant to the main issue.
		But, I have come to the conclusion, as a matter of law, that these bylaws are only valid if they take as the applicable area that area which can properly be said to have been appropriated for military purposes.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /mhs/crabt.htm (5205 words)

	Eden knew Suez raid was illegal \| The World \| The Australian
		SECRET papers released yesterday confirm that Anthony Eden's Conservative Government launched the British invasion of Egypt in 1956 without consulting its law officers and in the knowledge that the action was almost certainly a breach of international law.
		Lord Kilmuir, clearly under political pressure to provide justification for the Suez adventure, pored over the UN Charter and the Paris Pact of 1928, which sought to outlaw war as a means of settling international disputes.
		He concluded -- just -- that military intervention in Egypt could be justified in international law as a means of protecting the canal from irreparable damage.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20857103-2703,00.html (393 words)

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		the crown the sovereignty of the country, and the allegiance of the proprietary and the inhabitants,) to be holden of the crown as of the-castle of Windsor in Berks, in free and common soccage, and not in capite, or by knight service; and erected it into a province and seignory by the name of Pennsylvania.
		All laws were to be sent to England within five years after the making of them, and, if disapproved of by the crown within six months, to become null and void.4 It also authorized the proprietary to appoint judges and other officers; to pardon and
		reprieve criminals; to establish courts of justice, with a right of appeal to the crown from all judgments; to create cities and other corporations; to erect ports, and manors, and courts baron in such manors.
	www.constitution.org /js/js_112.htm (400 words)

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