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Series
Commonwealth Office: Legal Executive Branch and Foreign and Commonwealth Office,...
Catalogue reference: FCO 52
What's it about?
FCO 52
This series consists of registered files of the Legal Executive Branch of the Commonwealth Office relating to legal advice to other Commonwealth Office departments, and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Legal Department.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 52
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: Legal Executive Branch and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Legal Department: Registered Files (LX and LG Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1967-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Legal Executive Branch of the Commonwealth Office relating to legal advice to other Commonwealth Office departments, and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Legal Department.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier Commonwealth Office legal files see DO 219
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Very few files from this series have been preserved, and researchers should normally look for legal opinions provided by the Branch and Department on the files of the relevant lead department for the subject in question.
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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)
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LG and LX file series
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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)
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- Commonwealth Office, Legal Executive Branch, 1967-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Legal Department, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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319 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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
- International
- Legal
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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 Legal Executive Branch provided legal advice to other Commonwealth Office departments, and policy advice on legal questions generally. This practice continued in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where a team of legal advisers, forming a department outside of the formal administrative structure of the Office, provided advice to other Foreign and Commonwealth Office departments on a wide range of international legal opinions.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14933/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: FCO
Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors
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Commonwealth Office: Legal Executive Branch and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Legal Department: Registered Files (LX and LG Series)
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