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Ministry of Education and predecessors: Legal Branch: Law Officers' Opinions
Catalogue reference: ED 184
What's it about?
ED 184
Files of the Ministry of Education and predecessors, Legal Branch consisting of Law Officers' OpinionsThe opinions were given by the Law Officers of the Crown to successive education departments in response to enquiries concerning points of law,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 184
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Education and predecessors: Legal Branch: Law Officers' Opinions
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Date (When the record was created)
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1862-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Ministry of Education and predecessors, Legal Branch consisting of Law Officers' Opinions
The opinions were given by the Law Officers of the Crown to successive education departments in response to enquiries concerning points of law, and mainly relate to the scope of various education acts.
The majority of opinions are given by the Attorney General and the Solicitor General but one file includes those of the first Parliamentary Counsel, 1903-1905.
The list of pieces in this series quotes the former serial numbers of the individual opinion, a descriptive index to which will be found in ED 184/1. A separate index to the opinions of the first Parliamentary Counsel is included in ED 184/14
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Education, 1899-1944
- Board of Education, Legal Branch, 1924-1944
- Board of Education, Legal Department, 1908-1924
- Education Department, 1856-1899
- Ministry of Education, Legal Branch, 1944-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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14 file(s)
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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
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6983/
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