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| post = Minister of Legal Affairs and <br/> Attorney General
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| body = Trinidad and Tobago
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| incumbent = [[Reginald Armour]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ttparliament.org/members.php?mid=55&id=RAR22 | title=Trinidad and Tobago Parliament }}</ref>
| incumbentsince = 16 March 2022
| department = Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs
| style = [[The Honourable]]
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| appointer = [[President of Trinidad and Tobago|President]]
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| formation = 1805
| inaugural = Archibald Gloster
| salary = {{nowrap|[[Trinidad and Tobago dollar|TT$]] 492,360 (2019) annually<ref>{{cite news |title=Numbered-Draft-Estimates-Statutory-Boards-2019.pdf |url=https://www.finance.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Numbered-Draft-Estimates-Statutory-Boards-2019.pdf |access-date=19 October 2020 |agency=Ministry of Finance |publisher=Ministry of Finance}}</ref>}}
| website = {{url|https://agla.gov.tt/}}
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{{Politics of Trinidad and Tobago}}
According to the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago, the supreme law of the nation, the '''attorney general and minister of legal affairs of Trinidad and Tobago''' is the primary legal advisor to the [[Government of Trinidad and Tobago]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ag.gov.tt/AG-Corner/Roles-and-Functions|title= Roles and Functions |publisher= Ministry of the Attorney General|access-date = 26 July 2015}}</ref>
==Roles and function==
The attorney general is a member of the Government and has two separate constitutional roles, a governmental role, in which he acts as a member of Government in the performance of his duties, and a role as the guardian of the public interest, when he acts independently in a quasi-judicial capacity.
The provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago require the attorney general to be responsible for the administration of legal affairs within the country. Legal proceedings for and against the State must be taken in the name of the attorney general (in the case of civil proceedings) and in the name of the State (in the case of criminal proceedings).
The attorney general has responsibility for the following departments:
**Wholly Owned Enterprises
**Appointment to Quasi Judicial Bodies
**Law Reform
*Office of the Solicitor General
**Civil Litigation
**Legal Advice to the Government
*Office of Chief State Solicitor
**Administrator General
**Provisional Liquidator
**Provisional Receiver
**Public Trustee/Official Receiver
*Office of Chief Parliamentary Counsel
**Legislative Drafting
*Statutory Boards and other Bodies
**Corruption Investigation Bureau
**Anti-Corruption Squad
**Council of Legal Education
**Environmental Commission
**Equal Opportunity Commission
**Equal Opportunity Tribunal
**Hugh Wooding Law School
**Industrial Court
**Law Reform Commission
**Tax Appeal Board
==List of attorneys-general==
* ''Trinidad only''
*Gloster c.1805 <ref>{{cite book|title= History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896|first= Lionel|last= Fraser|page=21}}</ref>
*H. Fuller c.1828<ref>{{cite book|title= History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896|first= Lionel|last= Fraser|page= 220}}</ref>
*Wylie c.1832 (acting)
*Edward Jackson, c.1840<ref>{{cite book|title=The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and Colonies, 1840|page= 405}}</ref> (died 1846)
*[[Charles William Warner]], 1844 to 1870<ref name="Chapman">{{Cite book|last=Chapman|first=J. K.|title=The Career of Arthur Hamilton Gordon: First Lord Stanmore 1829-1912|publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]]|year=1964|isbn=9781442652699}}</ref>
*George Garcia, 1870 to 1873 <ref name = BB>{{cite book| title= Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad 1870-1900|first= Bridget|last= Brereton|author-link=Bridget Brereton|page=54}}</ref>
*Henry Ludlow, 1874 to 1886 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ludlowfamilyresearch.co.uk/web/pdf/law.pdf |title=Ludlow Family |publisher=Ludlowfamilyresearch.co.uk |access-date=2015-11-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305055601/http://www.ludlowfamilyresearch.co.uk/web/pdf/law.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-05 }}</ref>
*[[Stephen Herbert Gatty]], 1886 to 1889
*''Trinidad united with Tobago, 1889''
*[[Stephen Herbert Gatty]], 1889 to ?1892
*George Lewis Garcia, 1892 to ?<ref name = BB/>
*[[Vincent Brown (lawyer)|Vincent Brown]], 1903 to ? <ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27603|page=6087|date=6 October 1903}}</ref>
*[[Henry Gollan]], 1911 to 1918
*[[Aucher Warner|Robert Stewart Aucher Warner]], 1918 to ?1922<ref>{{cite book|title=The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers|first = Marcus|last = Garvey|page=215}}</ref>
*Sir [[Atholl MacGregor]], 1926 to 1929
*[[Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge]] c.1930
*Sir [[Justin Louis Devaux]] 1935–1940<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seychellesweekly.com/November%2013,%202011/top5_seychelles_chief_justice.html |title=Seychelles Chief Justice and the First Coup d'état |publisher=Seychellesweekly.com |date=1943-01-01 |access-date=2015-11-09}}</ref>
*Wilcox Wilson c.1945<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccultt.org/site/historical-background |title=History of the Credit Union Movement &#124; The Co-operative Credit Union League of Trinidad & Tobago |publisher=Ccultt.org |access-date=2015-11-09}}</ref>
*Joseph Leon Mathieu-Perez, c.1950 to 1957
*Sir [[Ellis Clarke]], 1957 to 1961<ref>{{cite book|title= Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|first=Harris|last = Lentz|page=758}}</ref>
*''Trinidad and Tobago became independent, 1962''
*[[George Richards (Attorney General)|George Armsby Richards]], 1962 to 1969<ref name = AG>{{cite web|url=http://www.ag.gov.tt/AG-Corner/Past-Attorneys-General|title=Past Attorneys General|publisher=Ministry of the Attornry General|access-date=26 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516015506/http://www.ag.gov.tt/AG-Corner/Past-Attorneys-General|archive-date=16 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Karl Hudson-Phillips|Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips]], 1969 to 1973 <ref name = AG/>
*[[Benjamin Llewellyn Basil Pitt]], 1973 to 1976<ref name = AG/>
*[[Selwyn Richardson|Selwyn A. Richardson]], 1976 to 1981<ref name = AG/>
*[[Russell Martineau]], 1981 to 1986 <ref name = AG/>
*[[Selwyn Richardson|Selwyn A. Richardson]], 1986 to 1989<ref name = AG/>
*[[Anthony Smart]], 1989 to 1991 <ref name = AG/>
*[[Keith Sobion]], 1991 to 1995<ref name = AG/>
*[[Kamla Persad-Bissessar]], Nov. 1995 to Feb. 1996<ref name = AG/>
*[[Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj]], Feb. 1996 to Oct. 2001<ref name = AG/>
*[[Kamla Persad-Bissessar]], Oct. 2001 to Dec. 2001<ref name = AG/>
*[[Glenda Morean-Phillip]], Dec. 2001 to Nov. 2003<ref name = AG/>
*[[John Jeremie (Attorney General)|John Jeremie]], 2003 to 2007<ref name = AG/>
*[[Bridgid Annisette-George]], 2007 to 2009<ref name = AG/>
*[[John Jeremie (Attorney General)|John Jeremie]], May, 2009 to 2010<ref name = AG/>
*[[Anand Ramlogan]], 2010 to 2015<ref name = AG/>
*[[Garvin Nicholas]], 3 February 2015 to 9 September 2015<ref name = AG/>
*[[Faris Al-Rawi]], 9 September 2015 to 16 March 2022
*[[Reginald Armour]], 16 March 2022 to ''present''
==See also==
* [[Justice ministry]]
* [[Politics of Trinidad and Tobago]]
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