Catalogue description Chancery and Supreme Court: Chancery Division: Accounts

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Details of J 337
Reference: J 337
Title: Chancery and Supreme Court: Chancery Division: Accounts
Description:

These records comprise the account ledgers and indexes relating to court funds in Chancery. Indexes provide the names of all the parties named in the Chancery actions who are to be provided money from the estates.
Date: 1841-1939
Arrangement:

Chronologically then by surname.
Related material:

See also C 276
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Supreme Court of Judicature, Supreme Court Pay Office, 1884-1975
Physical description: 443 files and volumes
Restrictions on use: 3 working days notice to produce
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2010 Ministry of Justice
Custodial history: These records can be traced back with certainty to 1972 when they were known to be in the custody of the Supreme Court Pay Office to 1975 and the Court Funds Office, thereafter, both sited at the Royal Courts of Justice London WC2A 2LL. During the 1980s the records were moved to the Public Record Office repository at Hayes Middlesex UB3 1RF. In 2003, the records were temporarily held in the basement of the Court Funds Office in 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE before being moved in the same year into private storage at Bishops Furniture Storage in Battersea London acting on behalf of the Department for Constitutional Affairs. In 2008 the records were moved to Bishops Storage in Chessington, Surrey before being moved in 2009 to Harwell Laboratories in Oxfordshire for preparation for transfer to the National Archives. The remaining records that were not selected for transfer continue to be held by Bishops on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in Chessington Surrey.
Selection and destruction information: All accounts and indexes have been preserved (where extant).
Accruals: Series is not accruing.

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