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Series
Home Office: Mutual Legal Assistance: Registered Files (MLA Series)
Catalogue reference: HO 634
What's it about?
HO 634
This series contains records regarding Home Office involvement in the development of mutual legal assistance (MLA) agreements and co-ordination between foreign states in the interest of crime prevention and criminal justice. This includes records...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 634
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Mutual Legal Assistance: Registered Files (MLA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1988-2004
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records regarding Home Office involvement in the development of mutual legal assistance (MLA) agreements and co-ordination between foreign states in the interest of crime prevention and criminal justice. This includes records concerning Home Office input into legislation; liaison with Europe and foreign states; Home Office committees and working parties; the search, seizure and disposal of assets relevant to overseas investigations; high-profile MLA casework; the development of policy on the prevention of drug trafficking; extradition policy; co-ordination of European states to tackle organised crime and the developmentof anti-money laundering legislation and strategy. This series also contains files on the establishment of an International Criminal Court and an ad hoc War Crimes Tribunal.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records in this series are arranged by departmental file number. The first two digits after the file prefix (as in MLA 92) indicate the 'over year' which is usually the year that the file was created.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also records on extradition and fugitive offenders in HO 306
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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)
- MLA Prefix
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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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- Home Office, 1782-1782
- Home Office, Judicial Co-operation Unit, 1991-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 154 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 2024 Home 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- This 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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Records within this series were created by the Judicial Co-operation Unit, which includes the United Kingdom Central Authority.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18578329/
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Within the department: HO
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Home Office: Mutual Legal Assistance: Registered Files (MLA Series)
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