Legal Aid Board: Secretariat Department: Registered Files (Alpha Numeric Series)

FR 9

1987-1990

The files within this series were created by the Secretariat: a department set up to undertake the day-to-day administration for the Chairman and members of the Legal Aid Board. Other departments (including the Policy and Legal Department, the Chief Executive's Department and the Finance Department) will have contributed to the contents of these files.

The file prefixes are denoted as follows.

External Committees (EC prefix) which includes records created by the Regional Legal Services Committee, North Eastern Legal Services Committee, North Western Legal Services Committee, South Wales Legal Services Steering Group and the Joint Consultative Committee.

Internal Committees (IC prefix) which includes records created by the Legal Aid Board (code LAB), Management Board (code MB), Information Technology / Project Board code IT), Area Chairmen and Vice Chairmen (code AC), Area Directors' Conference (code ADC), Franchising Project Board / Team (code FR) and Multi Party Actions Project Team (code MPA).

Operational / Standing Committees ( OC prefix) which includes records created by Top Management and Personnel Committee, Standards and Performance Committee, Audit and Finance Committee, Duty Solicitor Committee and Cost Appeals.

Policy / Task Force Committees (PC prefix) which includes records created by the Multi-Party Actions Committee, Means Assessment Committee, Green orm Working Party, New Roles Committee, Crime Committee, Priorities and Effectiveness Committee, Access Committee, Access Committee, Statistics Committee, Services Committee and the Information Needs Working Party.

Consultation and Research (CON prefix) which includes records created by Advice Agencies, Law Centres, Pilot Schemes, Consultation Papers by various legal aid sections, Court Schemes Projects, Research bodies, Expert Systems Working Party and various Legal Reform projects.

Liaison / Meetings / Conferences (LM prefix) which includes records created by the Legal Aid Board in its dealings with the Law Society, Lord Chancellor's Department, Justice Clerks' Society, Department of Social Security (Preston), Solicitors Family Law Association, the Bar Council, Solicitors Complaints Bureau. Also contained are the records of the Joining Data Committee, Quarterly Reports to the Lord Chancellor's Department, the Community Intepreters Project and Legal Aid Board responses to consultation papers.

Remaining file prefixes are as follows: Visits (VT prefix); Communications (COM prefix); Budget / Annual Report (BDG / AR prefix); Legal Aid Board / Chairman's Correspondence (BRD prefix); Training (TR prefix) and White Paper (WP prefix).

The files are arranged in alpha numeric order.

Public Record(s)

English

• Law Society, 1825-1825
• Legal Aid Board, 1989-2000
• Lord Chancellor's Department, Shadow Legal Aid Board, 1988-1989

31 file(s)

Certain files subject to the Legal Aid Act 1988, s.38

Open unless otherwise stated

in 2005 Legal Services Commission

Topics

Government finances

Computing

Legal

Wills and probate

Held in the custody of the Law Society from July 1987, Legal Aid Board from 1 April 1988 to 1 April 2000 whereupon held by the successor body the Legal Services Commission

6 July 1987 to 31 December 1989

Series is not accruing

TNA appraisal policy themes 2.1.4 Policy and administrative processes of the state: administration of justice.

The Secretariat have three main work streams:Corporate Governance, Equalities, Information Compliance. They work on a daily basis with the Chair and Commission members, managing their annual programme of work. The Secretariat work includes: managing the work of the full Commission; advising on public appointment issues including Committee membership; coordinating responses to Parliamentary Questions about the work of the Commission; producing the Commission's Annual Report to Parliament; advising on the Commission's committee structure; managing the work of the Commission's Audit and Finance and General Purposes Committees; leading responsibility for the Commission's compliance with the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 and other anti-discrimination legislation; taking the lead in meeting the challenges of compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000; creating and coordinating programmes for many of the overseas visitors to the Commission