Catalogue description Lord Chancellor's Office: Unregistered Papers

Correspondence and papers from the Lord Chancellor's Office dealing with judicial and legal administration. Subjects covered include legislation, including the codification of criminal law; the procedure and organization of central and local courts; bankruptcy, lunacy and wreck jurisdictions; The approval of regulations governing the operations of the Director of Public Prosecutions; the appointment of legal officers; and the staffing of the courts and of departments subordinate to the Lord Chancellor including the Land Registry, the Middlesex and Yorkshire Deeds Registries, and probate registries.

Lord Chancellor's Office, 1885-1972