Agenda item

The Attorney General for England and Wales, Dominic Grieve, QC, MP, is the senior Law Officer charged with providing legal advice to the Government.  The role includes supervision of the Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and Treasury Solicitor’s Department.

The Attorney General is to give a speech in the Livery Hall, on a date to be arranged in late September or early October, on the subject of the value of the rule of law.  Topics likely to be covered include the contribution of legal services to the City’s economy and the role of English law in international trade and finance. 

We recommend that the opportunity be taken to invite a number of those attending the speech, including executive or partner-level legal, financial and business sector representatives, senior regulators and the judiciary, government representatives, academics and prominent legal journalists to a reception afterwards and that the arrangements be left in the hands of the Policy and Resources Committee with the cost being met from within the approved cost parameters.

 (This would be a Committee event)

The Attorney General for England and Wales, Dominic Grieve, QC, MP, is the senior Law Officer charged with providing legal advice to the Government.  The role includes supervision of the Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and Treasury Solicitor’s Department.

The Attorney General is to give a speech in the Livery Hall, on a date to be arranged in late September or early October, on the subject of the value of the rule of law.  Topics likely to be covered include the contribution of legal services to the City’s economy and the role of English law in international trade and finance. 

We recommend that the opportunity be taken to invite a number of those attending the speech, including executive or partner-level legal, financial and business sector representatives, senior regulators and the judiciary, government representatives, academics and prominent legal journalists to a reception afterwards and that the arrangements be left in the hands of the Policy and Resources Committee with the cost being met from within the approved cost parameters.

 (This would be a Committee event).

Read and agreed to.