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Lord Chancellor's Department: Matrimonial Causes Rule Committee, Agendas and Minutes...
Catalogue reference: LCO 47
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LCO 47
This series contains agenda, documents circulated and minutes of meetings (from 1970) of the Matrimonial Causes Rule Committee.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LCO 47
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Department: Matrimonial Causes Rule Committee, Agendas and Minutes of Meetings
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Date (When the record was created)
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1970-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains agenda, documents circulated and minutes of meetings (from 1970) of the Matrimonial Causes Rule Committee.
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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)
- Matrimonial Causes Rule Committee, 1967-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 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
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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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- Topics
- Marriage and divorce
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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 Matrimonial Causes Act 1967 provided for the setting up of a separate Rule Committee for the Matrimonial Causes Rules to be made under the Act. The membership comprised the Lord Chancellor, the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, one divorce judge, two county court judges, one registrar from the divorce registry, one county court registrar, two barristers who are members of the Bar Council and two solicitors, one of whom is to be a member of a local law society. Matters of procedure are governed almost exclusively by rules of court made under powers given by statute.
The committee, which is serviced by the Lord Chancellor's Department, considered amendments to the rules, memoranda prepared by interested parties, and reviewed and redrafted the rules. The rules that are made must be published and laid before Parliament. The rules are then submitted to the Lord Chancellor for his approval.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10285/
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