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Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: LCO 2
What's it about?
LCO 2
Correspondence and papers of the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Crown Office (until 1921) relating to the administrative, ecclesiastical, judicial and parliamentary powers and duties of the Lord Chancellor. Subjects covered include the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LCO 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1850-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence and papers of the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Crown Office (until 1921) 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, including the Porter Committee on the Law of Defamation, 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; private international law; and enemy war crimes.
Some papers relate to matters of concern to the Lord Chancellor as a member of, and legal adviser to Cabinet.
Includes records relating to the Trustee Securities Committee (Lawrence Committee)( LCO 2/1043-1047), the County Court Rule Committee and the Supreme Court Rule Committee.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For papers on the Committee of Defamation see LCO 13
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Lord Chancellor's Department, Crown Office, 1972-1972
- Lord Chancellor's Office, Clerk of the Crown, 1875-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8707 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Pieces LCO 2/1997 to LCO 2/2641 and LCO 2/2859 to LCO 2/2955 form two blocks of files opened mainly between 1890 and 1950, which were retained in the Lord Chancellor's Department, Crown Office, 1972-, after the main run of files of that period had been transferred. They were transferred separately in 1967-1968.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10240/
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Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Registered Files
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