The Government Legal Profession (GLP), formerly the Government Legal Service,Government Legal Service is now called Government Legal Profession
accessed 5 August 2021 is an umbrella group comprising around two thousand qualified

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working as

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s in around thirty

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departments. The

Treasury Solicitor The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Service. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor. This office go ...

(currently Susanna McGibbon) is also the Head of the Government Legal Profession. GLP lawyers are mostly employed by the

Government Legal Department The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Service. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor. This office go ...

, although based in other government departments, with some being directly employed by the department in which they work. The GLP brand is used primarily for

recruitment Recruitment is the overall process of identifying, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and interviewing candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization. Recruitment also is the processes involved in choosing individual ...

purposes and offers training and support to GLP lawyers. The GLP Secretariat supports the work of lawyers across the GLP by providing central library services and for an

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system, Legal Information Online Network, or LION, which can be accessed by all government lawyers, and gives access to commercial legal databases and information and articles relevant to government legal work. Lawyers in the Government Legal Profession: * instruct Parliamentary Counsel to draft almost all

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primary legislation Primary legislation and secondary legislation (the latter also called delegated legislation or subordinate legislation) are two forms of law, created respectively by the legislature, legislative and executive (government), executive branches of ...

; * draft the vast majority of

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s and

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in the UK; * advise

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on the formulation and implementation of policy; * provide litigation services to departments of the United Kingdom Government and the wider public sector; * prior to

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, ensured

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was correctly implemented into UK law. There are separate but similar structures in the

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administrations, the Government Legal Service for Scotland and the Government Legal Service for Northern Ireland.

References

External links

Government Legal Profession
official website Solicitors Law of the United Kingdom Public bodies and task forces of the United Kingdom government {{UK-gov-stub