The Honourable Attorney General of Montserrat, usually known simply as the Attorney General, is the chief legal adviser to

The Crown The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has different ...

and the

Government of Montserrat Politics of Montserrat takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Premier is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Montserrat is an internally self-governing overseas territor ...

. In addition to providing legal advice to government departments and various statutory boards, the Office of the Attorney General is responsible for the drafting of all of the government's legislation, and also handles all civil litigation matters for the government. As of 2019, Sheree Jemmotte-Rodney became the Attorney General of Montserrat, a position she had been acting in for more than a year. Sir Clare Roberts, who served as the Attorney General for the British Virgin Islands and Antigua and Barbuda, has been identified as a former Attorney General of Montserrat. His years of service are uncertain. While Gertel Thom has been identified as the first female Attorney-General of Antigua and Barbuda (1998-2001), it is unknown if she was also the first in Montserrat's history.

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Attorneys general by country Government of Montserrat {{Montserrat-stub

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