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Stephen Cave was appointed Legal Director at the Department for Transport in June 2022, having previously been DfT’s Deputy Legal Director since April 2022. Since leaving private practice as a solicitor, Stephen has worked in a number of legal roles...
Caroline Croft has taken up post as Director General for GLD's Employment with Economic Recovery and UK Governance directorate
Our short film showcases the breadth of work government lawyers and legal trainees are involved
We are the government’s principal legal advisers. Our core purpose is to help the government to govern well, within the rule of law. GLD is a non-ministerial department.
Sarah Goom has been appointed Director General of the Commercial with Trade and International Directorate.
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
As company director, you take on many legal requirements and duties. You must know what they are and when you need to complete them.
When you become the director of a limited company, you should be aware of the legal requirements and duties involved.
Stephen Parkinson will be the new Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service the Attorney General has announced today.
FCDO Legal Director Andrew Murdoch gave a statement on behalf of the UK at the session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute on 7 December 2023.
Ruth Tomlinson is a Legal Director in Home Office Legal Advisers in the Government Legal Department. She leads the policing, crime and national security team, as well as being Legal Director for the Northern Ireland Office. Ruth qualified as a...
GLD's Manchester office officially open
Peter was interim Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department between November 2020 and March 2021. His previous roles include: Home Office Legal Adviser and Director General, Government Legal Department, 2014-2020 Deputy Treasury Solicitor at the Treasury...
List of English-speaking lawyers and translators/interpreters for British nationals in the USA.
Government lawyers provide legal advice to the government and represent it in court proceedings
Find English-speaking lawyers, doctors and medical providers, interpreters and translators, and funeral directors overseas.
Douglas Wilson is the Director General of the Attorney General’s Office, appointed in May 2021. Previously, he spent four and a half years in cyber agency GCHQ as Director of Legal Affairs and International Relations, serving on the Board as...
Guidance, created in 2012, for those who wish to begin a private prosecution for offences where the Attorney General’s consent is required.
Director of Legal Aid Casework (DLAC) annual report covers the work carried out under this function.
For government departments and others wanting the Attorney General’s permission to use specialist lawyers (counsel) not already on the Attorney General’s approved panels.
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