Attorney General of Jamaica is the chief law officer in
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
.
Section 79(1) of the
Constitution of Jamaica states that "there shall be an Attorney General who shall be the principal legal adviser to the Government of Jamaica" and pursuant to the Crown Proceedings Act all civil proceedings by or against the Government are instituted in the name of the Attorney General.
List of attorneys general of Jamaica
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1655 English/British Colony
*Edmund Ducke 1671
*John Wright 1685
*Sir Richard Dereham 1688
*Simon Musgrave 1686–1691
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William Brodrick (politician), brother of
Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton
Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton, PC (Ire) (c. 1656 – 29 August 1728) was a leading Irish lawyer and politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland between 1692 and 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1717 to 1728. He was Speake ...
, (
Lord Chancellor of Ireland) 1693
*Thomas Barrow 1698
*Edward Haskins 1703
*Robert Hotchkyn 1707
*William Brodrick 1711–1715
*Edmund Kelly 1719
*William Monk 1724
*Alexander Henderson 1732
*Thomas Howe 1732
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Matthew Concanen
Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749) was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.
Life
Concanen studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. ...
1732–1744
*Andrew Arcedeckne 1734
*Thomas Hill 1744
*Robert Penny 1744–1749
*Henry Morgan Byndloss 1754
*Richard Beckford 1755
*Gilbert Ford 1760
*Edward Penny 1760
*Thomas Gordon 1766
*Thomas Beach 1766
*Thomas Harrison 1769
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Robert Sewell, 1784
*George Crawford Ricketts 1796
*William Ross 1802
*Thomas Witter Jackson 1808-1818
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William Burge
William Burge (1786 – 12 November 1849) was a British lawyer and Privy Councillor.
Biography
William Burge matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1803 and was admitted to the Inner Temple being called to the bar in 1808. He then joined the ...
1818–1829
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Hugo James 1829
*Fitzherbert Batty 1832
*Dowell O'Reilly 1833–1855
*Alexander Heslop 1857–1866 (1855–?)
*''1866 British Crown Colony''
*Ernest Alexander Clendinning Schalch 1872 (died 1874)
*George Hurley Barne 1876
*(Sir)
Edward Loughlin O'Malley 1876–1880
*Sir
Henry Hicks Hocking 1881–c.1895
*(Sir)
Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles 1896–1905
*Thomas Bancroft Oughton 1906–
*
Ernest St. John Branch 1910–
*Frederick Chester Wells Durrant 1921–1932
*Maurice Vivian Camacho ?1932–1938
*Arthur Werner Lewey c.1938–
*T. Henry Mayers c.1944
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Joseph Leslie Cundall 1952–?1962
1962 Independent Commonwealth realm
*Victor B. Grant 1962–1972
*Leacroft Robinson 1972–1976
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*
Raphael Carl Rattray 1976–1980
[
*Winston Spaulding 1980–1986 ][
*]Oswald Harding
Oswald Gaskell Harding (born 3 November 1935) is a Jamaican former Labour Party politician, and the longest-serving senator in the nation's history. He was born in Kingston. Harding was the first person to serve as President of the Senate o ...
1986–1989 [
* Raphael Carl Rattray 1989–1993 ][
*David Coore 1993–1995 ][
*Arnold Joseph Nicholson 1995–2007 ][
*]Dorothy Lightbourne
Dorothy Lightbourne is the former Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Jamaica from September 2007 to July 2011 when she was removed by Prime Minister Bruce Golding and replaced by Delroy Chuck as Minister of Justice and by Rans ...
2007–2011
* Ransford Braham 2011–2012
*Patrick Atkinson 2012–2016
*Marlene Malahoo Forte
Marlene Patricia Malahoo Forte is a Jamaican politician. She currently serves as Jamaica's Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs and was the Attorney General of Jamaica from 7 March 2016 to 10 January 2022. She served as a Senator f ...
, 2016-2022
References
{{Attorneys General of British overseas territories
Ministries and agencies of the government of Jamaica