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Series
The Legal Aid Board: Chief Executive's Private Office Papers
Catalogue reference: FR 11
What's it about?
FR 11
The files in this series consist of documents created either by the Chief Executive's Department or other departments within the Legal Aid Board. The files concern the main preoccupation of the Chief Executive: to ensure that advice, assistance...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FR 11
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Title (The name of the record)
- The Legal Aid Board: Chief Executive's Private Office Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1988-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series consist of documents created either by the Chief Executive's Department or other departments within the Legal Aid Board. The files concern the main preoccupation of the Chief Executive: to ensure that advice, assistance and representation are available within the framework of the Legal Aid Act 1988. This includes responsibility for assessing and paying bills from suppliers of civil legal aid work and criminal work in magistrates courts.
All departments within the Legal Aid Board will at some time have prepared papers for the Chief Executive: e.g. Chief Executives Department; Policy and Legal Department; Press Office; Secretariat; Finance Department; Information Systems Department; Human Resources Department; Supplier Development Group; Investigations Department; Audit Department; Civil Contracting Team and Regional Offices.
A large proportion of these files were accidentally destroyed in error by the Legal Services Commission in July 2004.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The files were originally arranged by subject. No alphanumeric sequence was applied during active use by the CEO. At the point of review, the prefix CEO was added and a numerical sequence was applied to these subject ordered records.
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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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- Legal Aid Board, 1989-2000
- Lord Chancellor's Department, Shadow Legal Aid Board, 1988-1989
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- Some files subject to the Legal Aid Act 1988, s.38
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Records not yet transferred
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Legal Services Commission
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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
- Legal
- Personal and family papers
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were created and stored by the Lord Chancellor's Department Shadow Legal Aid Board from January 1988 until April 1989 whereupon they were passed to the Legal Aid Board.The latter body had custody of the records until April 2000 when they were passed to the Legal Services Commission.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1 January 1988 to 31 March 2000
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selection of these records was made according to TNA Appraisal Policy s.2.1.4 - Policy and administrative processes of the state: administration of justice.
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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 Chief Executive Department of the Legal Aid Board has been in existence since the Shadow Board's inception in 1988.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16271/
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