CIVIL DIVISION

Organisational Structure​​

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"To Provide Quality Legal Advice and Representation For Government Ministries Departments and Agencies"​

​Core Responsibilities

• 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​​