Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Re-opened Formal Investigation into the Loss of MV Derbyshire

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Reference: MT 203
Title: Transport Ministries: Re-opened Formal Investigation into the Loss of MV Derbyshire
Description:

This series includes the report and presentations to the re-opened Formal Investigation into the loss of MV Derbyshire.
Date: 1955-2000
Separated material:

Digital records are in MT 205
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
Physical description: 72 files, rolls and volumes
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2008 Department for Transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Following the UK/EC Assessors' Report, on 17 December 1998, the Deputy Prime Minister, The Rt Hon John Prescott MP announced that there was to be a full re-opening of the Formal Investigation and that this was to be held in the High Court under section 269(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.

The hearing commenced on 5 April 2000 and lasted for 54 days, concluding on 26 July 2000.

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