Series
Lord Chancellor's Department: Committee on Defamation
Catalogue reference: LCO 13
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LCO 13
This series consists of a selection of files containing the Committee on Defamation's working papers, written submissions made to the committee by various organisations and individuals, shorthand transcripts of the oral evidence of witnesses who...
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LCO 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Department: Committee on Defamation
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Date (When the record was created)
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1971-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a selection of files containing the Committee on Defamation's working papers, written submissions made to the committee by various organisations and individuals, shorthand transcripts of the oral evidence of witnesses who appeared before the committee, drafts and proofs of the committee's Report and Minority Reports.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files are arranged in strict file number order under the references and headings given to them by the secretary to the committee.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The records of the Porter Committee (Report of the Committee on the Law of Defamation; Cmd 7536; 1948) may be found in LCO 2
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Committee on Defamation, 1971-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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183 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Committee on Defamation was appointed by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Advocate in June 1971 under the chairmanship of The Honourable Mr. Justice Faulks, M.B.E., T.D. Its terms of reference, which applied to Scotland as well as to England and Wales, were:- "To consider whether, in the light of the working of the Defamation Act 1952, any changes are desirable in the law, practice and procedure relating to actions for defamation". The committee's report was published in 1975 (Cmmd. 5909).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10251/
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Lord Chancellor's Department: Committee on Defamation