Catalogue description Home Office: Mutual Legal Assistance: Registered Files (MLA Series)

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Details of HO 634
Reference: HO 634
Title: Home Office: Mutual Legal Assistance: Registered Files (MLA Series)
Description:

This series contains records regarding Home Office involvement in the development of mutual legal assistance (MLA) agreements and co-ordination between foreign states in the interest of crime prevention and criminal justice. This includes records concerning Home Office input into legislation; liaison with Europe and foreign states; Home Office committees and working parties; the search, seizure and disposal of assets relevant to overseas investigations; high-profile MLA casework; the development of policy on the prevention of drug trafficking; extradition policy; co-ordination of European states to tackle organised crime and the developmentof anti-money laundering legislation and strategy. This series also contains files on the establishment of an International Criminal Court and an ad hoc War Crimes Tribunal.
Date: 1991-1996
Arrangement:

Records in this series are arranged by departmental file number. The first two digits after the file prefix (as in MLA 92) indicate the 'over year' which is usually the year that the file was created.
Former reference in its original department: MLA Prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Home Office, 1782-

Home Office, Judicial Co-operation Unit, 1991-1996
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Accruals: This series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Records within this series were created by the Judicial Co-operation Unit, which includes the United Kingdom Central Authority.

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