Catalogue description The Legal Aid Board: Chief Executive's Private Office Papers

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Reference: FR 11
Title: The Legal Aid Board: Chief Executive's Private Office Papers
Description:

The files in this series consist of documents created either by the Chief Executive's Department or other departments within the Legal Aid Board. The files concern the main preoccupation of the Chief Executive: to ensure that advice, assistance and representation are available within the framework of the Legal Aid Act 1988. This includes responsibility for assessing and paying bills from suppliers of civil legal aid work and criminal work in magistrates courts.

All departments within the Legal Aid Board will at some time have prepared papers for the Chief Executive: e.g. Chief Executives Department; Policy and Legal Department; Press Office; Secretariat; Finance Department; Information Systems Department; Human Resources Department; Supplier Development Group; Investigations Department; Audit Department; Civil Contracting Team and Regional Offices.

A large proportion of these files were accidentally destroyed in error by the Legal Services Commission in July 2004.
Date: 1988-2000
Arrangement:

The files were originally arranged by subject. No alphanumeric sequence was applied during active use by the CEO. At the point of review, the prefix CEO was added and a numerical sequence was applied to these subject ordered records.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Legal Aid Board, 1989-2000

Lord Chancellor's Department, Shadow Legal Aid Board, 1988-1989
Restrictions on use: Some files subject to the Legal Aid Act 1988, s.38
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Legal Services Commission
Custodial history: The records were created and stored by the Lord Chancellor's Department Shadow Legal Aid Board from January 1988 until April 1989 whereupon they were passed to the Legal Aid Board.The latter body had custody of the records until April 2000 when they were passed to the Legal Services Commission.
Accumulation dates: 1 January 1988 to 31 March 2000
Selection and destruction information: Selection of these records was made according to TNA Appraisal Policy s.2.1.4 - Policy and administrative processes of the state: administration of justice.
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Chief Executive Department of the Legal Aid Board has been in existence since the Shadow Board's inception in 1988.

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