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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's main responsibilities are:
- Chief legal adviser to the Government and Parliament
- Guardian of the rule of law and the public interest
- Superintendence of the prosecuting departments
The Attorney General and the Solicitor General are also Criminal Justice Ministers.
On this website you can find publications, news releases, information about us and on our work and contact details.
Links to the organisations the Attorney General superintends are in the green panel.
Latest News
05 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, is today visiting two projects in Exeter to see first hand how they coordinate partnerships between law students, courts and the local council to really make a difference to the justice system
04 February 2010
A pioneering lesson package is to be rolled out across England and Wales by the Crown Prosecution Service
03 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, is to deliver the inaugural lecture of the University of Sussex's "Issues in Criminal Justice" series
02 February 2010
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, has appointed Mike Fuller, currently Chief Constable of Kent Police, to the role of HM Crown Prosecution Service Chief Inspector.
21 January 2010
The National Fraud Authority (NFA) has released the UK's first comprehensive fraud estimate which estimates that fraud costs the UK over £30 billion a year.
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