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The Attorney General's Chambers of Anguilla is responsible for the following: * Legal Adviser to the Government, Departments, Statutory Boards and Corporations * Prosecute criminal cases on behalf of the Crown * Represent the Government in civil actions by and against the Crown * Advise the Royal Anguilla Police Force regarding investigations and prosecutions * Draft legislation * Law revision * Law reform
Anguilla Anguilla ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The territo ...
seceded from
Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis (), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country and microstate consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of ...
and became a British Crown colony in December 1980. Before then, the Attorney General was identified as representing "St. Christopher itts Nevis and Anguilla." Even by the time Anguilla passed a new constitution in 1982, certain records still showed the same title for the Attorney General.


List of attorneys general (Post-1980 upon becoming a territory)

* Fitzroy Bryant (1979) eferred to as the Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla*
Tapley Seaton Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton, (born 28 July 1950) is the fourth and current governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis. He was born on Saint Kitts, the son of William A. Seaton and his wife, Pearl A. Seaton, nee Godwin. He came to the posi ...
(1980-1982) eferred to as the Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla*Alan Hoole (1983-1985) *
Howard Morrison Sir Howard Leslie Morrison (18 August 1935 – 24 September 2009) was a New Zealand entertainer. From 1964 until his death in 2009, he was one of New Zealand's leading television and concert performers. Early life Of Māori (Te Arawa), Irish ...
(1988-1989) * Alan Hoole (1989-1990) *Kurt de Freitas (1991-1992) * Patrick Patterson (1993-1994) *Kurt de Freitas (1995-1996) * Ronald Scipio (1997-2006) * Wilhelm Bourne (2006-2010) * James Wood (2011-2014)* * Rupert Jones (2014-2016) *
John McKendrick John McKendrick (born 11 May 1969) is a Scottish football referee. McKendrick is a senior lecturer in human geography at Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow Caledonian University ( gd, Oilthigh Chailleannach Ghlaschu, ), informally G ...
(2016-2018)* *Dwight Horsford (2018-present) *Ivor Greene was the Acting Attorney General during 2013 and 2017.


See also

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Justice ministry A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a v ...
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Politics of Anguilla Politics of Anguilla takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Premier is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Anguilla, the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser ...


References

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