Lord Chancellor's Office: Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 1966...

LCO 7

1966-1971

The series contains records of the Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions including memoranda of oral and written evidence submitted to the Commission, together with alphabetical and numerical indexes to the submissions and a copy of the Commission's report; minutes of meetings, working papers and statistics compiled by the Commission, together with departmental investigated files relating to its appointment, minutes and papers of various working parties appointed by the Commission and press comments on its report.

LCO 7/221 contains an alphabetical index to those who submitted evidence, also indexes to file numbers.

For records of the Crown Courts see

Records of Justices of Assize, Gaol Delivery, Oyer and Terminer, and Nisi Prius are in: ASSI

Public Record(s)

English

440 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

The Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions was appointed by Royal Warrant on 7th November, 1966, under the Chairmanship of the Rt. Hon. Lord Beeching, to enquire into the present arrangements for the administration of justice at Assizes and at Quarter Sessions outside Greater London, and to report what reforms should be made for the more convenient, economic and efficient disposal of the civil and criminal business at present dealt with by those courts. The terms of reference were extended on 18th December, 1967, by the following addition: and to consider and report on the effect these will have on the High Court, the Central Criminal Court, the Courts of Quarter Sessions in Greater London and the County Courts throughout England and Wales. The report of the commission was published in 1969 (as Cmnd. 4153).