Attorney General of Jamaica is the chief law officer in Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

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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

• Robert Hotchkyn 1707
• Robert Sewell
  Robert Sewell (lawyer)
  Robert Sewell was Attorney General of Jamaica and pro-slavery member of the Parliament of Great Britain.Robert Sewell was the son of Sir Thomas Sewell and Catherine Heath and christened 13 December 1751 at All Hallows, London....
  
  , 1780
• William Burge
  William Burge
  William Burge was a British lawyer and Privy Councillor.-Biography:William Burge matriculated at Oxford University in 1803 and was admitted to the Inner Temple being called to the bar in 1808...
  
   (?-1831)
• Dowell O' Reilly (1831-1855)
• Alexander Heslop (1855_?)
• A.J Nicholson (2002-2007)
• Dorothy Lightbourne
  Dorothy Lightbourne
  Dorothy Lightbourne was the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Jamaica from September 2007 to July 2011 when she was removed by Prime Minister Bruce Golding and replaced by Delroy Chuck as Minister of Justice and by Ransford Braham as Attorney General...
  
   (2007-2011)
• Ransford Braham (2011-present)