Catalogue description Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams' Drafts

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Title: Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: Master Watkin-Williams' Drafts
Description:

Drafts from the chambers of Chancery Master Watkin-Williams. The series does include material generated by his predecessors and inherited by him. The predecessors of Master Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams (1910-1932) in his role as a Master/Chief Clerk were Master Charles Burney (1877-1909), Master Edmund Boyle Church (1864-1876) and, for causes with initial letters A-F, Master George Whiting (1852-1863).

Date: 1883-1890
Arrangement:

The drafts are arranged under the initial letter of the action concerned, each set of chambers being allocated cases falling within a particular division; eg G-N. In a few cases, drafts relate to actions falling outside the chambers main concern, possibly because they were handled exceptionally or were dealt with specially during the vacation.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: C 335
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 8 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1914 Robert Thesiger Watkin- Williams, 1867-1953

Selection and destruction information: Documents in this series were scheduled for destruction after 40 years in 1913 and after 10 years in 1929. Following the Report of the Committee on Legal Records (Cmnd 3084) of 1966, action on their disposal was deferred pending the examination of Chancery Masters' documents as a whole.

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