County Crown Attorney (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, a federal parliamentary republic in North America, the office of County Crown Attorney is the second-most senior public legal official at the county level, whose office forms an integral part of the respective county's Department of Justice, which oversees the administration of justice within the county and is led by a Secretary of Justice, the county's most senior legal officer and official counsel to the county's government.

The County Crown Attorney's Office is responsible for either directly prosecuting in county or municipal court on behalf of the county's justice department, or supervising County Crown Attorney's Deputies, who handle the majority of prosecutions in the county, with the County Crown Attorney him/herself handling only county-level prosecutions or very serious local-level prosecutions relevant to one of the respective county's municipalities. On rare occasions (usually the most serious cases tried at the county level), the county's Secretary of Justice and County Crown Attorney act as co-counsel for the prosecution.

The equivalent office outside of a county is the District Crown Attorney, who is responsible for either a regional district or municipal district, and unlike a county Crown attorney, answers directly to the Attorney General of the respective province, who executes prosecutions at the provincial level through the respective province's Office of the Provincial Crown Attorney. Other unitary authorities (such as the federal capital of Ottawa or the Toronto Metropolis) have their own justice department overseen by a Secretary of Justice, who like county Secretaries of Justice oversees the chief crown prosecutor who is called simply Crown Attorney, leaving out any reference to the local government.