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Solicitor general

Legal position in common law countries From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A solicitor general is a government official who serves as the chief representative of the government in courtroom proceedings. In systems based on the English common law that have an attorney general or equivalent position, the solicitor general is often the second-ranked law officer of the state and a deputy of the attorney general. The extent to which a solicitor general actually provides legal advice to or represents the government in court varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and sometimes varies between individual office holders in the same jurisdiction.

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Solicitors General include the following:

Australia

Canada

The role of Solicitor General existed at both the federal and provincial levels throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. However, within recent decades it has been renamed or merged into another ministry in most jurisdictions.

United Kingdom

United States

  • Solicitor General of the United States, the federal government's primary advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court
  • In U.S. state governments, the Solicitor General is usually a high-level legal official who argues in court — often in the U.S. Supreme Court or in the federal United States courts of appeals — on behalf of the State, its executives and officials, and its legislature. The position of state solicitor general appeared in the late 20th century, and not all states have a solicitor general. State Solicitors General include, among others
  • Georgia also has county solicitors general who prosecute misdemeanors in that county.[8]

Other countries

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See also

  • Attorney general, the main legal advisor to the government. In some jurisdictions the attorney general may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions
  • Justice of the peace, sometimes used with the same meaning
  • Law officers of the Crown, the chief legal advisers to the Crown, and advise and represent the various governments in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms
  • Solicitor, a lawyer who traditionally deals with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in court
  • Solicitor (South Carolina), a state elected position equivalent to a district attorney in many other states
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