Government Legal Service

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The Government Legal Service (GLS) is an umbrella group comprising around 1900 qualified lawyers working as Civil Servants in around 30 UK Government departments.

The Treasury Solicitor (currently Paul Jenkins) is also the Head of the Government Legal Service. GLS lawyers are mostly employed by the department in which they work, or by the Treasury Solicitor's Department (TSol). The GLS brand is used primarily for recruitment purposes and for offering training and support to GLS lawyers. The GLS Secretariat supports the work of lawyers across the GLS by providing central library services and for an intranet system, Legal Information Online Network, or LION, which can be accessed by all Government lawyers, and gives access to commercial legal databases and information and articles relevant to Government legal work.

Lawyers in the Government Legal Service:

• Instruct Parliamentary Counsel to draft all UK primary legislation.
• Draft the vast majority of statutory instruments and secondary legislation in the UK.
• Ensure Law of the European Union is correctly implemented into UK law
• Advise Departments of the United Kingdom Government on the formulation and implementation of policy
• Provide litigation services to Departments of the United Kingdom Government and the wider public sector

For further information, visit the GLS website - [[1]]

[edit] External resources

• http://www.gls.gov.uk