Lord Hermer

The Attorney-General

Labour Peer

Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 18 July 2024

Currently held offices

  • The Attorney-General (since 5 Jul 2024)

Recent appearances

  • Attorney General’s Office: Conflicts of Interest - Commons Urgent Question 27 Jan 2025

    My Lords, it is vital that the public are reassured that the highest standards of propriety are applied by my department, and I welcome the opportunity to answer questions today. As the House will be aware, I am constrained by the law officers’ convention, which prohibits me identifying particular instances in which law officer advice has been sought, even by implication. But I hope that...
  • Attorney General’s Office: Conflicts of Interest - Commons Urgent Question 27 Jan 2025

    I thank the noble Lord for his question. The law officers’ convention is not a convenient rock for law officers to hide behind; it is an essential principle that allows law officers to properly discharge their functions by providing legal advice to the Prime Minister and to government, and for that advice and the contents of that advice not to be revealed, because to do so would...
  • Attorney General’s Office: Conflicts of Interest - Commons Urgent Question 27 Jan 2025

    It is my understanding that the same rigorous process has been applied to me and my fellow law officers as was applied previously under Governments of all different colours. As to pre-existing experience, Parliament and various Governments have been lucky to enjoy the assistance of lawyers with a range of experience of public, commercial and criminal law. I anticipate that the same rigour has...

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