Catalogue description Lord Chancellor's Department: Committee on Defamation

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Details of LCO 13
Reference: LCO 13
Title: Lord Chancellor's Department: Committee on Defamation
Description:

This series consists of a selection of files containing the Committee on Defamation's working papers, written submissions made to the committee by various organisations and individuals, shorthand transcripts of the oral evidence of witnesses who appeared before the committee, drafts and proofs of the committee's Report and Minority Reports.
Date: 1971-1975
Arrangement:

The files are arranged in strict file number order under the references and headings given to them by the secretary to the committee.
Related material:

The records of the Porter Committee (Report of the Committee on the Law of Defamation; Cmd 7536; 1948) may be found in LCO 2
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Committee on Defamation, 1971-1975
Physical description: 183 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee on Defamation was appointed by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Advocate in June 1971 under the chairmanship of The Honourable Mr. Justice Faulks, M.B.E., T.D. Its terms of reference, which applied to Scotland as well as to England and Wales, were:- "To consider whether, in the light of the working of the Defamation Act 1952, any changes are desirable in the law, practice and procedure relating to actions for defamation". The committee's report was published in 1975 (Cmmd. 5909).

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