Series
Lord Chancellor's Department: Royal Commission on Legal Services
Catalogue reference: LCO 19
What's it about?
LCO 19
The series consists of evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Legal Services, papers circulated to Commissioners, sub-committee papers, draft chapters of the final report and C(correspondence) and LS (legal services) series of files.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LCO 19
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Department: Royal Commission on Legal Services
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1975-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series consists of evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on Legal Services, papers circulated to Commissioners, sub-committee papers, draft chapters of the final report and C(correspondence) and LS (legal services) series of files.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- C and LS file series
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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)
- Royal Commission on Legal Services, 1976-1979
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1721 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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Royal Commission on Legal Services was appointed in July 1976 under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Benson GBE, FCA, to inquire into the law and practice relating to the provision of legal services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and to consider whether any, and if so what, changes are desirable in the public interest in the structure, organisation, training, regulation of and entry to the legal profession, including the arrangements for determining its remuneration, whether from private sources or public funds, and in the rules which prevent persons who are neither barristers nor solicitors from undertaking conveyancing and other legal business on behalf of other persons. The report of the commission was published in October 1979 (Cmnd. 7648).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10257/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: LCO
Records of the Lord Chancellor's Office and of various legal commissions and committees
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Lord Chancellor's Department: Royal Commission on Legal Services