Division
Records of the Solicitor's Department
Catalogue reference: Division within BT
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Division within BT
Records of the Solicitor's Department of the Board of Trade and successors relating to the provision of legal advice and the conduct of legal proceedings.Correspondence and papers after 1910 are in BT 23 and BT 103. Bill papers, mainly from 1956,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within BT
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Solicitor's Department
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1855-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Solicitor's Department of the Board of Trade and successors relating to the provision of legal advice and the conduct of legal proceedings.
Correspondence and papers after 1910 are in BT 23 and BT 103. Bill papers, mainly from 1956, are in BT 281. Papers on rights to wreckage under the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, to 1872, assembled by the Solicitor, are in BT 212. Registered files of the Solicitor's Department concerning industry and investment grant matters are in BT 331
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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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- Board of Trade, Legal Branch, 1875-1887
- Board of Trade, Solicitors Department, 1887-1970
- Department of Industry, Solicitors Department, 1974-1983
- Department of Trade and Industry, Solicitors Department, 1970-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5 series
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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 work of the Board of Trade was conducted by the solicitor to the Board of Customs until 1875, when the board acquired its own solicitor. In 1887 the Solicitor's Department was established. This was partly occupied with providing legal advice to the other departments of the board and parliamentary drafting, partly with the conduct of legal proceedings on violations of acts administered by the board or by the Export Credits Guarantee Department, and partly with work connected with shipping and other official enquiries.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C475/
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Records of the Solicitor's Department