Elisabeth Velina Jones is a Welsh lawyer who served as the Counsel General-designate for Wales, from 7 August 2024 to 11 September 2024 and has also served as legal adviser to the Senedd.
Early life and education.
Jones studied French and German at Somerville College, Oxford, and studied for an LLM at the University of Bristol.
Career.
Jones initially worked in commercial and employment law in the City of London and Bristol. She also worked giving free legal advice at the Gloucester Law Centre. She later worked at the European Court of Human Rights.
In 2012, she was appointed Chief Legal Advisor to the National Assembly for Wales. She served in this role until 2019.
In 2024, she was appointed as Counsel General-desginate in the Eluned Morgan government on "an interim basis". She replaced Vaughan Gething, who had appointed himself to the role after Mick Antoniw resigned from the cabinet. She has specific statutory functions in that role, including in relation to Senedd Cymru Bills. However, as she is not an elected Minister, any ministerial powers associated with the role will have to be executed by a sitting minister. The Law Society responded to her appointment by calling for a return to a political appointee in the role, saying that the lack of an elected Senedd member in the role presents a risk of loss of political focus around justice in wales.
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