Catalogue description Lord Chancellor's Department: Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury

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Reference: LCO 20
Title: Lord Chancellor's Department: Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury
Description:

The series consists of evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury, papers issued to Commissioners, minutes of meetings, the report, registered files, and a complete list of all files created by the secretariat during the lifetime of the commission. There are also a few earlier papers following the announcement in 1972 of the government's decision to set up an inquiry.
Date: 1972-1979
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury, 1973-1978
Physical description: 1355 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury was appointed in March 1973 under the Chairmanship of the Right Honourable The Lord Pearson, PC, CBE, to consider to what extent, in what circumstances and by what means compensation should be payable in respect of death or personal injury (including ante-natal injury) suffered by any person in the course of employment; through the use of a motor vehicles or other means of transport; through the manufacture, supply or use of goods or services; on premises belonging to or occupied by another; or otherwise through the act or omission of another where compensation under the present law is recoverable only on proof of fault or under the rules of strict liability, having regard to the cost and other implications of the arrangements for the recovery of compensation, whether by way of compulsory insurance or otherwise. The report was published in 1978 (Cmnd. 7054).

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