Catalogue description Records of the Solicitor's Department

Details of Division within BT
Reference: Division within BT
Title: Records of the Solicitor's Department
Description:

Records of the Solicitor's Department of the Board of Trade and successors relating to the provision of legal advice and the conduct of legal proceedings.

Correspondence and papers after 1910 are in BT 23 and BT 103. Bill papers, mainly from 1956, are in BT 281. Papers on rights to wreckage under the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, to 1872, assembled by the Solicitor, are in BT 212. Registered files of the Solicitor's Department concerning industry and investment grant matters are in BT 331
Date: 1855-1979
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Legal Branch, 1875-1887

Board of Trade, Solicitors Department, 1887-1970

Department of Industry, Solicitors Department, 1974-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, Solicitors Department, 1970-1974
Physical description: 5 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The legal work of the Board of Trade was conducted by the solicitor to the Board of Customs until 1875, when the board acquired its own solicitor. In 1887 the Solicitor's Department was established. This was partly occupied with providing legal advice to the other departments of the board and parliamentary drafting, partly with the conduct of legal proceedings on violations of acts administered by the board or by the Export Credits Guarantee Department, and partly with work connected with shipping and other official enquiries.

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