The Attorney General's Chambers of Anguilla is responsible for the following:
* Legal Adviser to the Government, Departments, Statutory Boards and Corporations
* Prosecute criminal cases on behalf of the Crown
* Represent the Government in civil actions by and against the Crown
* Advise the Royal Anguilla Police Force regarding investigations and prosecutions
* Draft legislation
* Law revision
* Law reform
Anguilla
Anguilla is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Sa ...
seceded from
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis, officially the Federation of Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis, is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Less ...
and became a British Crown colony in December 1980. Before then, the Attorney General was identified as representing "St. Christopher
itts Nevis and Anguilla." Even by the time Anguilla passed a new constitution in 1982, certain records still showed the same title for the Attorney General.
List of attorneys general (Post-1980 upon becoming a territory)
* Fitzroy Bryant (1979)
eferred to as the Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla*
Tapley Seaton (1980-1982)
eferred to as the Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla*Alan Hoole
(1983-1985)
*
Howard Morrison (1988-1989)
* Alan Hoole
(1989-1990)
*Kurt de Freitas (1991-1992)
* Patrick Patterson (1993-1994)
*Kurt de Freitas (1995-1996)
* Ronald Scipio (1997-2006)
* Wilhelm Bourne (2006-2010)
* James Wood (2011-2014)*
* Rupert Jones (2014-2016)
* John McKendrick (2016-2018)*
*Dwight Horsford (2018-present)
*Ivor Greene was the Acting Attorney General during 2013 and 2017.
See also
*
Justice ministry
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...
*
Politics of Anguilla
References
{{Attorneys General of British overseas territories
Ministries of justice