{"id":1851,"date":"2025-03-14T18:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/?page_id=1851"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:42:17","slug":"the-solicitor-general","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/the-solicitor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solicitor General"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1851\" class=\"elementor elementor-1851\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-36d52e1 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"36d52e1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9e01344\" data-id=\"9e01344\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c6976f elementor--h-position-center elementor--v-position-middle elementor-widget elementor-widget-slides\" data-id=\"9c6976f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;transition&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;transition_speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"slides.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.13.3 - 28-05-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The present Solicitor-General of the Republic of Mauritius is <strong>Mr. RAMLOLL Rajeshsharma, S.C<\/strong>. He acceded to this post in 2021\u00a0after joining the office as State\u00a0Counsel in 1995. The Solicitor-General is a non-political public officer appointed by the Judicial and Legal Service Commission. He took silk in 2016.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8d73d87 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8d73d87\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-32a0c2e\" data-id=\"32a0c2e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6b014f8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6b014f8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7167c62\" data-id=\"7167c62\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c224cff elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c224cff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Role of the Solicitor-General<\/strong><\/p><p>The Solicitor-General is the administrative head of the Attorney-General\u2019s office and he is after the Principal Legal Advisor to Government, namely, the Hon. Attorney-General, the next most senior legal adviser to the Hon. Attorney General.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the absence or inability to act of the Hon. Attorney-General, or by the direction of the Hon. Attorney General, the Solicitor-General may discharge any functions authorised or required by any enactment to be discharged by the Attorney General in relation to any civil proceedings.\u00a0<\/p><p>The Solicitor-General handles all civil matters. In addition, he tenders advice to government departments and ministries in an independent and impartial manner.\u00a0<\/p><p>The Solicitor-General oversees the work carried out by the Law Officers and State Attorneys as well as other cadres at the Attorney-General\u2019s Office. He defends the interests of the State before all courts including the Privy Council.\u00a0<\/p><p>Legislative drafting constitutes a vital component of the work of the Attorney-General\u2019s office. The Solicitor-General also works in close collaboration with the Parliamentary Counsel in the drafting of legislation. \u200b<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present Solicitor-General of the Republic of Mauritius is Mr. RAMLOLL Rajeshsharma, S.C. He acceded to this post in 2021\u00a0after joining the office as State\u00a0Counsel in 1995. The Solicitor-General is a non-political public officer appointed by the Judicial and Legal Service Commission. He took silk in 2016. Role of the Solicitor-General The Solicitor-General is the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/the-solicitor-general\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Solicitor General<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[],"class_list":["post-1851","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}