Attorney General of Jamaica

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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.

List of Attorneys General of Jamaica

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1655 English/British Colony

Edmund Ducke 1671

Sir Richard Dereham 1688

Simon Musgrave 1686–1691

William Brodrick 1693

Thomas Barrow 1698

Edward Haskins 1703

Robert Hotchkyn 1707

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 (1855–?)

1866 British Crown Colony

Ernest Alexander Clendinning Schalch 1872 (died 1874)

George Hurley Bame 1876

(Sir) Edward Loughlin O'Malley 1876–1880

Sir Henry Hicks Hocking 1881

(Sir) Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles 1896

Thomas Bancroft Oughton 1906

Ernest St. John Branch 1910

Leslie Cundall

1962 Independent Commonwealth realm

Victor B. Grant 1962-1972

Oswald Harding 1986–1989

Carl Rattray 1989–1993

Arnold Joseph Nicholson 2002–2007

Dorothy Lightbourne 2007–2011

Ransford Braham 2011–2012

Patrick Atkinson, Q.C. 2012–2016

Marlene Malahoo Forte, 2016-present

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