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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Attorney General

Constantinos Kombos

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
April 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Administration of justice — Criminal law — Comparative constitutional law — Administrative agencies — Executive power

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The comparative analysis of the office of the Attorney-General or Attorney General (‘A-G’) represents conceptual challenges, primarily because of the varying ways in which the term appears in different legal orders. Methodologically, the adopted approach is functional and concentrates on the various roles of the A-G, by placing priority on the advising function and setting that as the minimum common denominator. In other words, this entry focuses on the A-G as the main legal advisor to the government, while other functions are seen as supplementing the primary...
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