Author: New Zealand. Solicitor-GeneralPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Role of the Attorney-general, Solicitor-general and Crown Law Office and Issues of Importance
Author: New Zealand. Solicitor-GeneralPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Role of the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General and Crown Law Office
Author: The Solicitor General
Author: Rebecca SalokarPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566392600
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A frequently overlooked institution of American politics, the Office of the Solicitor General is responsible for all litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the executive branch. In carrying out this task, the solicitor general is also an advisor to the justices and a gatekeeper, controlling a large portion of litigation that reaches the Court's docket. Rebecca Salokar studies this office and shows that, with the increased politicization of the Justice Department, the work of the nation's lawyer is an integral component of executive policy-making. Paying particular attention to the selection of solicitors general and the political and legal environment in which they functioned, Salokar analyzes all Supreme Court cases in which the government was a participant from 1959 through 1986. Her interviews with several former solicitors general and members of their staffs provide contextual examples to support the statistical analyses. She demonstrates that this office can and does shape policy questions for the United States. While the relationship between the judicial and executive branches has been defined traditionally through the nomination of justices to the Court, Salokar reveals that another, more frequently used, link between the two branches exists in the Office of the Solicitor General. Author note: Rebecca Mae Salokar is Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida International University.
The Law Officers of the Crown
Author: John Llewelyn Jones EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attorneys general
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Law Officers of the Crown
Author: John Llewelyn Jones EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The Role of the Solicitor-General
Author: Gabrielle ApplebyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509903968
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Behind every government there is an impressive team of hard-working lawyers. In Australia, the Solicitor-General leads that team. A former Attorney-General once said, 'The Solicitor-General is next to the High Court and God.' And yet the role of government lawyers in Australia, and specifically the Solicitor-General as the most senior of government lawyers, is under-theorised and under-studied. The Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law, Politics and the Public Interest goes behind the scenes of government – drawing from interviews with over 45 government and judicial officials – to uncover the history, theory and practice of the Australian Solicitor-General. The analysis reveals a role that is of fundamental constitutional importance to ensuring both the legality and the integrity of government action, thus contributing to the achievement of rule-of-law ideals. The Solicitor-General also works to defend government action and prosecute government policies in the court, and thus performs an important role as messenger between the political and judicial branches of government. But the Solicitor-General's position, as both an internal integrity check on government and an external warrior for government, gives rise to competing pressures: between the law, politics and the public interest. The office of the Solicitor-General in Australia has evolved many characteristics across the almost two centuries of its history in an attempt to navigate these tensions. These pressures are not unique to the Australian context. The understanding of the Australian position provided by this book is informed by, and will inform, comparative analysis of the role of government lawyers across the world.
Roles of the Attorney General of the United States
Author: Luther A. HustonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Crown Law Office Briefing Paper for the Attorney-General
Author: New Zealand. Solicitor-GeneralPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive power
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Law and Privileges Relating to the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of England
Author: James William Norton-KyshePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attorneys general
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Author: John Ll. J. Edwards