Army Legal Corps

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The Army Legal Corps (ALC) was a former corps of the British Army. It is now amalgamated into the Adjutant General's Corps.

The Army Legal Staff received full corps status on 1 November 1978. It was always the smallest corps in the Army and consisted only of commissioned officers, all of them either qualified solicitors, barristers or advocates. The head of the corps was the Director of Army Legal Services, a Major-General who is also the Army Prosecuting Authority. The members of the corps provided legal advice to the Army as an organisation and to individual officers and soldiers and also prosecuted at courts martial.

On 6 April 1992, the corps became the Army Legal Services Branch of the Adjutant General's Corps (AGC), but retains a separate identity and its own cap badge.

The corps motto was Justitia in Armis and the regimental march was Scales of Justice, both of which are retained by the Army Legal Services Branch.