Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Confirming the Appointment of HM Attorney General [2001-06-29]

Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Confirming the Appointment of HM Attorney General [2001-06-29]

Great Seal

Ministerial Appointments

Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II directing the Lord Chancellor to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal confirming the appointment of Lord Goldsmith as HM Attorney General.

Queen Elizabeth II

C 83/695

2001-06-29

Jason Loch

(Sgd.) Elizabeth R

Our will and pleasure is that this pass by immediate Warrant

ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas We did on the twenty-ninth day of July in the forty-eighth year of Our Reign constitute and appoint Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Gareth Wyn Baron Williams of Mostyn one of Our Counsel learned in the Law to be Our Attorney General during Our Pleasure and by Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our Realm bearing date at Westminster the seventeenth day of August in the forty-eighth year of Our Reign did confirm the said appointment And whereas on the eleventh day of June in the fiftieth year of Our Reign We of Our especial grace did constitute and appoint Our right trusty and well beloved Peter Henry Baron Goldsmith one of Our Counsel learned in the Law to be Our Attorney General in the place of the said Gareth Wyn Baron Williams of Mostyn lately deceased together with all salaries fees authorities and advantages due and of right belonging thereto Now therefore Know Ye that We by these Presents do hereby confirm the appointment of the said Peter Henry Baron Goldsmith to be Our Attorney General In Witness &c. Witness &c.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

This contains Your Majesty’s confirmation of the appointment of Peter Henry Baron Goldsmith, Q.C., to the Office of Your Majesty’s Attorney General

Prepared by order of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

Received the 29th
day of June 2001

(Sgd.) Irvine of Lairg, C.

While not countersigned, Lord Irvine of Lairg (Lord Chancellor) recepi'd in the lower left.

None

Black and white Royal Arms centered at the top.

Printed in Times New Roman with a dropcap.

Royal name, instruction to the Lord Chancellor, and the preface to the docket are all in boldface.

Royal name is capitalized along with the preface to the docket.

This is an Immediate Warrant which means it was presented to Queen Elizabeth II by the Lord Chancellor directly without the intervention of a Secretary of State (this distinction was more meaningful before the Lord Chancellor became a Secretary of State). Consequently, there's no countersignature, though the Lord Chancellor does recepi as usual. Immediate Warrants are usually used in connection with law-adjacent instruments.