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Treasury Solicitor: Department of Transport Division and predecessors: Law Officers'...
Catalogue reference: TS 75
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TS 75
Files containing documents used for reference purposes by the Treasury Solicitor's Ministry of Transport Branch and predecessors. The records consist of law officers' and counsels' opinions, transcripts of judgments in the High Court and Court of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- TS 75
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury Solicitor: Department of Transport Division and predecessors: Law Officers' and Counsels' Opinions, Judgments and Law Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1841-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files containing documents used for reference purposes by the Treasury Solicitor's Ministry of Transport Branch and predecessors. The records consist of law officers' and counsels' opinions, transcripts of judgments in the High Court and Court of Appeal, and law reports. The origins of the collection are unknown, but it was probably added to by the legal officers themselves over a period of time. Only a small number of pieces have original file references.
The subject-matter includes travel by road, rail, air and water; foreign shipping in territorial waters; compensation for sunk shipping; compulsory acquisition of land for roads and railways; and the building of hospitals and orphanages.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records have been arranged by subject (19th Century Railways, Shipping, Roads, Railways, Aircraft, Waterways), and chronologically under the subject headings.
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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)
- 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)
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- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Ministry of Aviation Branch, 1961-1966
- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Branch, 1954-1959
- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Ministry of Transport Branch, 1925-1930
- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Ministry of Transport Branch, 1947-1953
- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Ministry of Transport Branch, 1960-1970
- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Ministry of Transport Division, 1931-1941
- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Ministry of War Transport Branch, 1943-1946
- Ministry of Transport, Secretarial Department, 1920-1937
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 234 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Between 1923 and 1934 the Ministry of Transport transferred its legal work from its own Secretarial and Legal Department to the Treasury Solicitor, which set up a branch or outstation at the Ministry.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14143/
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Treasury Solicitor: Department of Transport Division and predecessors: Law Officers' and Counsels' Opinions, Judgments and Law Reports