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Series

Law Officers' Department: Registered Files

Catalogue reference: LO 2

What's it about?

LO 2

This series contains papers concering a wide variety of legal matters referred to the Law Officers for their advice or approval and includes applications for the Attorney General's General Fiat for leave to appeal to the House of Lords in...

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Reference

LO 2

Title
Law Officers' Department: Registered Files
Date

1885-1979

Description

This series contains papers concering a wide variety of legal matters referred to the Law Officers for their advice or approval and includes applications for the Attorney General's General Fiat for leave to appeal to the House of Lords in criminal cases.

Also included are a number of opinions, more of which can be found in LO 3

Arrangement
Arrangement

The files are registered in a numbered series according to their subject and these numbers are listed in the appendix to the series list.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

1180 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10297/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

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Records created or inherited by the Law Officers' Department

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Law Officers' Department: Registered Files