ABSTRACT
The Government of the United Kingdom is concerned, perhaps the lynchpins of the rule of law are the lawyers who are collectively known as the Law Officers of Crown. The principal Law Officers operate at the heart of the United Kingdom's democratic arrangements, constitutional structure and legal system. Lord Mustill depicted United Kingdom as having a peculiarly British concept of the separation of powers'. In short, therefore, devolution has muddied the constitutional and legal waters, all the more so in view of the pro-independence movement in Scotland and the Agreement concluded in Edinburgh on 15 October between the United Kingdom Government and the Scottish Government on a referendum on independence for Scotland. The Advocate General for Scotland and the Advocate General for Northern Ireland serve in the executive as well as legislative branches of the United Kingdom, while exercising various functions in their respective areas of jurisdiction subject to the devolution arrangements in place there.
