Attorney General of Anguilla
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The Attorney General's Chambers of Anguilla is responsible for the following:{{Cite web|url=http://www.gov.ai/attorney_general.php|title=Attorney General's Chambers|website=www.gov.ai|access-date=2018-07-03}}
- 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 seceded from Saint Kitts and Nevis and became a British Crown colony in December 1980. Before then, the Attorney General was identified as representing "St. Christopher [Kitts], Nevis and Anguilla."{{Cite web|url=http://www.deathpenaltyproject.org/legal-resources/authorities-database/search/?id=23|title=Authorities Database Search » The Death Penalty Project|website=www.deathpenaltyproject.org|language=en|access-date=2018-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704034758/http://www.deathpenaltyproject.org/legal-resources/authorities-database/search/?id=23|archive-date=4 July 2018|url-status=dead}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2i1RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT747|title=The Veiled Sceptre: Reserve Powers of Heads of State in Westminster Systems|last=Twomey |first=Anne |author-link=Anne Twomey (academic) |date=2018-04-12|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781108573320|language=en}} 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{{Cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435024019952;view=1up;seq=736|title=Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1979Jan-June.|website=HathiTrust|language=en|access-date=2018-07-03}} (1979) [referred to as the Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla]
- Tapley Seaton (1980-1982){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjEwAQAAIAAJ|title=Caribbean yearbook|date=1979|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435024019903;view=1up;seq=86|title=Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1982Jan-June.|website=HathiTrust|language=en|access-date=2018-07-03}} [referred to as the Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla]
- Alan Hoole{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhIWAQAAMAAJ|title=Caribbean Insight|date=1995|publisher=Goodyear Gibbs (Caribbean)|language=en}} (1983-1985)
- Howard Morrison (1988-1989)
- Alan Hoole (1989-1990)
- Kurt de Freitas{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSdqAAAAMAAJ|title=Caribbean and Central American Databook|date=1991|publisher=Caribbean/Central American Action|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-CYaAWN7-4C|title=Whitaker's Almanac 1992 124|last=Whitaker|first=Joseph|date=1991-12-01|publisher=J. Whitaker|isbn=9780850212204|language=en}} (1991-1992)
- Patrick Patterson{{Cite web|url=http://www.caribbean-attorneys.com/team/patr_patter_cons.php|title=CAA - Caribbean Associated Attorneys - Legal Team|website=www.caribbean-attorneys.com|access-date=2018-07-03|archive-date=1 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801111720/http://caribbean-attorneys.com/team/patr_patter_cons.php|url-status=dead}} (1993-1994)
- Kurt de Freitas{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=koQ96EOj-HMC|title=The Europa world year book 1996|year=1989|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=9781857430202|language=en}} (1995-1996)
- Ronald Scipio{{Cite web|url=http://www.caribbean-attorneys.com/team/ron_scipi_cons.php|title=CAA - Caribbean Associated Attorneys - Legal Team|website=www.caribbean-attorneys.com|access-date=2018-07-03|archive-date=1 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801110935/http://caribbean-attorneys.com/team/ron_scipi_cons.php|url-status=dead}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGqyAAAAIAAJ|title=The Americas Review|date=2007|publisher=World of Information|language=en}} (1997-2006)
- Wilhelm Bourne{{Cite news|url=http://www.anguillanews.com/enews/index.php/permalink/3904.html|title=SMG-AxANEWS - James Wood to be the next Attorney General of Anguilla - appointed by Governor Harrison|access-date=2018-07-03|language=en-US|archive-date=11 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211131633/http://www.anguillanews.com/enews/index.php/permalink/3904.html|url-status=dead}} (2006-2010)
- James Wood{{Cite web|url=http://www.caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/biography/bios/wood_james.asp|title=Caribbean Elections Biography {{!}} James Wood|website=www.caribbeanelections.com|access-date=2018-07-03}} (2011-2014)*
- Rupert Jones{{Cite web|url=http://theanguillian.com/2014/08/new-ag-i-am-a-lucky-mani-am-truly-blessed/|title=NEW AG: "I AM A LUCKY MAN…I AM TRULY BLESSED" {{!}} The Anguillian Newspaper|website=theanguillian.com|date=15 August 2014 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-03}} (2014-2016)
- John McKendrick{{Cite web|url=http://theanguillian.com/2016/09/attorney-general-sworn-in-amidst-religious-concern/|title=ATTORNEY GENERAL SWORN-IN AMIDST RELIGIOUS CONCERN {{!}} The Anguillian Newspaper|website=theanguillian.com|date=12 September 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-03}} (2016-2018)*
- Dwight Horsford (2018-present)
See also
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