Tag: government lawyers
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Conor Casey: The “Constitutional Oddity” at the Centre of Government Lawyering in the United Kingdom: A Note on the First Treasury Counsel
More attention has been paid in recent years to the important role government lawyers play in many constitutional systems, and the Janus-faced impact they have on executive authority. On the one hand, it has been pointed out that government lawyers act as a critical source of executive empowerment – by assisting officials as they assert…
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George Peretz: The Policy Exchange Paper on the Attorney General’s New Legal Risk Guidelines: Excited Adjectives, Unpersuasive Analysis
One of the best lessons I was given by my pupil supervisors in drafting written submissions was to go back and review the use of every adjective. As they pointed out, there is always a temptation in written advocacy to use excited adjectives, but the cumulative effect often makes the submission less, rather than more,…