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The Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was a law officer of the Crown in nineteenth-century Ireland. The office was created in 1831 to ease the heavy workload of the existing Irish Law Officers, the Attorney General for Ireland and the Solicitor General for Ireland.〔Casey, James ''The Irish Law Officers'' Round Hall Sweet and Maxwell 1996 p.47〕 No specific duties were assigned to the Law Adviser when the office was created: he appears at first to have been simply a general assistant to the Law Officers. Later he was given the tasks of drafting Parliamentary Bills, and of advising lay magistrates on any legal problems which they referred to him..〔Casey p.48〕 At first he was usually a Serjeant-at-law, but in time the position was open to rising barristers who hoped in due course to be appointed to the Bench. The Attorney General seems to have had the final word in the appointment: certainly this was so in 1841 when Francis Blackburne insisted on the appointment of Abraham Brewster, despite strong opposition from Daniel O'Connell, who disliked Brewater.〔Delaney, V.T.H ''Christopher Palles'' Allen Figgis and Co Dublin 1960 p.60〕 The Law Adviser's duty to advise magistrates on points of law was open to criticism as an interference by the Crown with the independence of the judiciary. In particular John Naish, the last nineteenth-century Law Adviser, was criticised for openly assisting magistrates in their ongoing struggle with the Irish National Land League, and for suggesting that they rely on an obscure medieval statute, ''34 Edward III c.1'', to imprison those who could not find surety for their good behaviour; since the statute had clearly been intended only to deal with cases of riot, this was arguably a distortion of the law. Perhaps for this reason the office was left vacant after Naish's promotion to the office of Solicitor General in 1883. It was briefly revived in 1919, but finally abolished by the Irish Free State in 1924.〔Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 s.6〕 ==List of Law Advisers 1831-1883,1919-1920== ''incomplete'' *1831 Richard Wilson Greene〔Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol.ii p.359〕 *date? Jonathan Christian *1841 Abraham Brewster *1852 Edmund Hayes *1858 James Anthony Lawson *1859 James Robinson *1861 Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet *1865 Charles Robert Barry * 1868 David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore *1868 Hugh Law *1874 George Augustus Chichester May *1875 Sir Frederick Falkiner *1876 Gerald FitzGibbon *1879 John Monroe *1880 John Naish ''The office was vacant 1883-1919'' *1919 William Wylie ''The office lapsed in 1920 and was abolished in 1924'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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