The Solicitor-General's Remit

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V. Harjalainen gripped by the throes of legal-work.

 

DISPUTATION ON THE POWER AND EFFICACY OF THE HOLY ORENIAN LEGISLATURE AND JUDICIARY

OR;

The Imperial Solicitor General’s Remit.

10^th of The Deep Cold, 1737.

 

This disputation will act as both an instrument of lightening the burden of office of the Solicitor-General while further acting as an explanatory and exploratory text which analyses the powers of the office, its purview and the necessity of either competencies being held by the office.

 

The duty to develop and maintain the system of Imperial courts, ensuring proper application of law will remain as a requisite part of the office, working with greater cohesion with both the council-of-state and the senate. The office will instead form an advisory role instead of a primary legislative office; this being a distinct reduction in powers. The office will not be able to act as an agent or proxy of the crown to give assent to any laws it wishes to pass, further acting only as a legal advisor and adjacent to the primary legislative bodies of the state - the senate, the emperor, and any de jure analogues to these offices such as Lord-Protectors of state.

 

The residual duties of office will remain, with a pointed adherence to the letter of the competencies allocated and delegated by the crown onto the office. With regards to the duty of representation of the crown during court cases, this will not be held as an explicit competency; if the crown holds an interest in the case, it will be the duty of the Solicitor-General to represent the crown and council-of-state.

 

It will not be a duty of the office to infringe on the legal and political autonomy the crown and council-of-state possess beyond its entirely advisory capacity. Further, the hands of imperial legislature must not infringe on the rights of the vassals.

 

GOD forgive the need for this clarification of remit of office and GOD preserve the empire.

 

HIS EXCELLENCY THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Veikko Harjalainen, esq.

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