Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: Legal Executive Branch and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Legal Department: Registered Files (LX and LG Series)

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Reference: FCO 52
Title: Commonwealth Office: Legal Executive Branch and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Legal Department: Registered Files (LX and LG Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Legal Executive Branch of the Commonwealth Office relating to legal advice to other Commonwealth Office departments, and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Legal Department.
Date: 1967-1982
Arrangement:

By former file reference
Related material:

For earlier Commonwealth Office legal files see DO 219
Separated material:

Very few files from this series have been preserved, and researchers should normally look for legal opinions provided by the Branch and Department on the files of the relevant lead department for the subject in question.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LG and LX file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, Legal Executive Branch, 1967-1968

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Legal Department, 1968-
Physical description: 319 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Legal Executive Branch provided legal advice to other Commonwealth Office departments, and policy advice on legal questions generally. This practice continued in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where a team of legal advisers, forming a department outside of the formal administrative structure of the Office, provided advice to other Foreign and Commonwealth Office departments on a wide range of international legal opinions.

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