chief law officer
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They have set a number of tests for the government's chief law officer and other ministers ahead of next week's votes.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2019
The report contradicts a conclusion reached recently by Malaysia's chief law officer.
From Reuters • Feb. 29, 2016
The attorney-general, the government’s chief law officer, had concluded that “there would be a clear legal basis for action under international law.”
From Economist • Sep. 10, 2015
An application by the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, the government's chief law officer, will be considered by the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, and two other judges.
From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2012
A third, Dambray, the chancellor, and the chief law officer of the nation, had distinguished himself in his youth as a Judge of Parliament.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
