Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Appointing the Solicitor General as a Queen's Counsel [2021-10-12]

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Title

Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Appointing the Solicitor General as a Queen's Counsel [2021-10-12]

Subject

Law
Ministerial Appointments
Great Seal

Description

Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II directing the Lord Chancellor to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm appointing Alex Chalk, HM Solicitor General, as a Queen's Counsel.

Creator

Queen Elizabeth II

Source

FOI request

Date

2021-10-12

Contributor

T. Onslow

Relation

Great Seal Act 1884 but the resulting Letters Patent are a prerogative instrument.

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Transcript

(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 Know Ye that We of Our especial grace have constituted ordained and appointed

Our trusty and well beloved
Alexander John Gervase Chalk

to be one of Our Counsel learned in the Law And We have also given and granted unto him as one of Our Counsel aforesaid place precedence and preaudience in Our Courts next after Duncan Alasdair Watson And We also will and grant to him full power and sufficient authority to perform do and fulfil all and every the things which any other of Our Counsel learned in the Law as one of Our said Counsel may do and fulfil We Will that this Our grant shall not lessen any Office by Us or by Our Ancestors heretofore given or granted In Witness &c. Witness &c.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

This contains Your Majesty’s Grant during pleasure of the Office of one of Your Majesty’s Counsel learned in the Law to Alexander John Gervase Chalk, M. P.

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

Received the 12th
day of October 2021

(Sgd.) Dominic Raab

Countersigner

Recepi'd by Dominic Raab (Lord Chancellor)

Ornamentation

Black and white Royal Arms.

Printed in Times New Roman.

Royal name begins with a drop cap and is capitalized and in boldface.

Appointee's name and office are in boldface.

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Citation

Queen Elizabeth II, “Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Appointing the Solicitor General as a Queen's Counsel [2021-10-12],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/516.

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