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Lord Chancellor's Department: Lay Observer and Legal Services Ombudsman: Reports...
Catalogue reference: LCO 59
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LCO 59
This series contains final letters and reports giving the background and decision relating to the investigation of complaints against solicitors and their employees by the Legal Services Ombudsman. Some early files concern cases referred to but...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LCO 59
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Department: Lay Observer and Legal Services Ombudsman: Reports on Complaints
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1986-2011
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains final letters and reports giving the background and decision relating to the investigation of complaints against solicitors and their employees by the Legal Services Ombudsman.
Some early files concern cases referred to but not actioned by the Lay Observer's Office in the period immediately before the establishment of the Legal Services Ombudsman in 1990.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 957 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 84 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1999 to 2015 Lord Chancellor's Department
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1980 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All final letters permanently preserved.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15140/
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Records of the Lord Chancellor's Office and of various legal commissions and committees
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Lord Chancellor's Department: Lay Observer and Legal Services Ombudsman: Reports on Complaints