Attorney General of Jamaica is the chief law officer in Jamaica.
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.The Attorney General Chambers accessed 26 December 2008
List of attorneys general of Jamaica Main Source:
1655 English/British Colony Edmund Ducke 1671 John Wright 1685 Sir Richard Dereham 1688 Simon Musgrave 1686–1691 William Brodrick (politician), brother of Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton, (Lord Chancellor of Ireland) 1693 Thomas Barrow 1698 Edward Haskins 1703 Robert Hotchkyn 1707Place Names , National Library of Jamaica, accessed 26 December 2008 William Brodrick 1711–1715 Edmund Kelly 1719 William Monk 1724 Alexander Henderson 1732 Thomas Howe 1732 Matthew Concanen 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 Robert Sewell, 1784 George Crawford Ricketts 1796 William Ross 1802 Thomas Witter Jackson 1808-1818 William Burge 1818–1829 Hugo James 1829 Fitzherbert Batty 1832 Dowell O'Reilly 1833–1855 Alexander Heslop 1857–1866 The Legal Observer, and Solicitors' Journal, Saturday 15 November 1855 (1855–?) 1866 British Crown Colony Ernest Alexander Clendinning Schalch 1872 (died 1874) George Hurley Barne 1874–1876 (Sir) Edward Loughlin O'Malley 1876–1879 Sir Henry Hicks Hocking 1880–c.1895 Thomas Bancroft Oughton, acting, 1889– (Sir) Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles 1896–1905 Thomas Bancroft Oughton 1906– Ernest St. John Branch 1910– Frederick Chester Wells Durrant 1921–1932 The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Maurice Vivian Camacho (c. 1931–1938) Arthur Werner Lewey 1939– Thomas Henry Mayers c.1944 Joseph Leslie Cundall 1952–?1962
1962 Independent Commonwealth realm Victor B. Grant, 1962–1972 Leacroft Robinson, 1972–1976 Raphael Carl Rattray, 1976–1980 Winston Spaulding, 1980–1986 Oswald Harding, 1986–1989 Raphael Carl Rattray, 1989–1993 David Coore, 1993–1995 Arnold Joseph Nicholson, 1995–2007 Dorothy Lightbourne, 2007–2011 Ransford Braham, 2011–2012 Patrick Atkinson, 2012–2016 Marlene Malahoo Forte, 2016-2022 Derrick McKoy, 2022–present
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