I was, of course, advised throughout not only by Home Office lawyers but also by Treasury Counsel.

Christmas Humphreys, Senior Treasury Counsel, led for the prosecution.

This includes Treasury Counsel issuing a legal memo documenting the review of your Fund's legislative investment authority.

Mark Dennis, a senior Treasury counsel, decided in November 2002 that there was insufficient evidence to charge Cannan over her death.

He became senior Treasury counsel in 1959, and became a founder member of the Criminal Law Revision Committee that year.

But those barristers retained to represent the Government - called Treasury Counsel - are very likely to be offered High Court judgeships in due course.

It was reviewed by Treasury counsel - a senior CPS lawyer - who advised that the case was strong enough to put before a court.

Two years later he was promoted to Senior Treasury Counsel, and in the same year he married Lucy Sloper but they had no children.

He was later cross examined by the might of the senior Treasury Counsel, Sir Charles Mathews, a mismatch if ever there was one.

"The contacts were not sufficiently channeled between White House counsel and Treasury counsel, and there were too many conversations in which no counsel participated," he said.

Indeed, the inquiry was partly conducted by a Treasury Department attorney who happened to work for a major target of the investigation, former Treasury Counsel Jean Hanson.

The First Junior Treasury Counsel is known colloquially as the "Treasury Devil" and represents Her Majesty's Government in the civil courts.

If the DPP disagrees with the advice given by Treasury Counsel, she must inform and consult the Attorney General and his Deputy (the Solicitor General).

They included Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman, Treasury counsel Jean Hanson and White House aide George Stephanopoulos.

Joining the chambers of Edward Cussens, she was swiftly identified as a high flier, and carved out a successful career, becoming junior Treasury counsel in 1981, and taking Silk in 1986.

Similarly, Secretary Bentsen has cause to remove Jean Hanson, the Treasury counsel, for briefing Mr. Nussbaum in advance on where the supposedly independent R.T.C. investigation was going.

Moreover, senior officials at the agencies for which the committees have oversight responsibility have behaved improperly - notably Roger Altman, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, and Jean Hanson, Treasury counsel.

Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building, and so asked for an adjournment.

In 1879 he was appointed junior Treasury counsel, retiring from the post in 1886 due to a growth on the larynx which seriously affected his voice, being succeeded by Sir Charles Willie Mathews, 1st Baronet.

Although the primary role is no longer one of litigation, the Attorney General still represents the Crown and government in court in some select, particularly important cases, and chooses the Treasury Counsel who handle most government legal cases.

Traditionally the First Junior Treasury Counsel is not appointed Queen's Counsel but it is nonetheless one of the most prestigious of legal appointments and almost inevitably leads to appointment as a High Court Judge.

In practice, the Treasury Solicitor (who also has the title of Procurator General) normally provides the lawyers or briefs Treasury Counsel to appear in court, although the Attorney General may appear in person.

I was advised by my legal advisers in the Department, and subsequently by first Treasury counsel, that that order was beyond the power of the court, and I was given leave to apply for it to be varied or discharged.

The Prime Minister said that he felt they should go through with the case now they had started, but Hastings suggested that a member of the Treasury Counsel appear at Bow Street Magistrates Court and withdraw the prosecution.

The judge recommended that controversial cases must be assigned to a senior lawyer in central casework, the CPS department that deals with difficult investigations, and that senior Treasury Counsel must review any decision not to press ahead with a prosecution.