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  • Legal advisers to Ministries, Government departments and statutory bodies;
  • Representatives of the Attorney General in meetings with Ministries, departments, statutory bodies, committees, boards of inquiries, taskforces;
  • Drafting, vetting and negotiating of contracts, Memorandum of Understandings, deeds and other legal documents;
  • Assists in the interpretation and application of laws and contracts and other legal documents;
  • Civil litigants and arbitrators for of the Government;
  • Debt recovery on behalf of the Government for unpaid debts;
  • Representing the Attorney General in matters and proceedings under the Legal Profession Act [Cap 132];
  • Providing advisory services with respect to legislations and law reform project; and
  • Advising on a wide range of issues including Construction, Banking and Finance, Dispute Resolutions, Syariah, Oil and Gas, Environment, Competition and Intellectual Property