Catalogue description Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Supreme Court Rule Committee, Agendas and Minutes of Meetings

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Reference: LCO 48
Title: Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Supreme Court Rule Committee, Agendas and Minutes of Meetings
Description:

This series contains agenda, documents circulated and minutes of meetings (from 1920) of the Supreme Court Rule Committee. Files in this series may fill some of the gaps in the records of the Rule Committee in LCO 2
Date: 1920-1980
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Supreme Court Rule Committee, 1881-
Physical description: 22 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1881 s19 vested the power to regulate procedure in the Supreme Court of Judicature through rules having the force of law. The powers lay with the Lord Chancellor and a Rule Committee consisting of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division and four judges selected by the Lord Chancellor. By 1909 there was also professional representation. The Rule Committee considered the rules, redrafted them, discussed them with masters and registrars, considered proposals and amendments and revoked those which were obsolete. The committee is serviced by the Lord Chancellors's Office.

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