Catalogue description Lord Chancellor's Department and successors: Administration and Policy: Registered Files (DL series)

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Reference: LCO 72
Title: Lord Chancellor's Department and successors: Administration and Policy: Registered Files (DL series)
Description:

Correspondence and papers relating to the administrative, ecclesiastical, judicial and parliamentary powers and duties of the Lord Chancellor. Subjects covered include the administration, organisation and staffing of the various courts, commissions, tribunals, and government departments for which he is or has been directly or indirectly responsible; constitutional questions; the drafting and interpretation of legislation; regulations and Supreme Court rules; emergency and wartime legislation, committees of inquiry; patronage and other ecclesiastical matters; the House of Lords; parliamentary elections; the legal profession; legal aid; the grant and issue of warrants, patents, orders; honours; visitorships; colonial and Commonwealth matters and private international law. Some papers relate to matters of concern to the Lord Chancellor as a member of, and legal adviser to, the Cabinet.

Date: 1985-2002
Arrangement:

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Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DL
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2003-2007

Lord Chancellor's Department, 1972-2003

Physical description: 1298 Paper files and digital records
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2013 Ministry of Justice

Accruals: Series is accruing.

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