Series
Supreme Court of Judicature: The Crown Court at Preston: Indictments
Catalogue reference: J 286
What's it about?
J 286
This series contains indictments for the Crown Courts at Preston, Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness. Indictments are a written or printed accusation of a crime. They consist of three parts: first, the commencement (name of case and defendant,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- J 286
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court of Judicature: The Crown Court at Preston: Indictments
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1972-2005
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains indictments for the Crown Courts at Preston, Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness.
Indictments are a written or printed accusation of a crime. They consist of three parts: first, the commencement (name of case and defendant, court of trial, statement that named person is charged with offence(s); second, the statement of the offence(s); and third, the particulars (e.g. description of the offence, date, place of the offence, name of victim(s)).
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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)
- 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)
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Crown Court at Preston, 1971-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1246 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 2005 Department for Constitutional Affairs
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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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The origins of the Crown Court lies in the Royal Commission set up by Lord Beeching in 1966 to investigate and propose reforms to the system of Assizes and Quarter Sessions that had remaioned unchanged for hundreds of years.
The Court Act 1971 adopted many of the reforms proposed by the Beeching Commission and replaced the traditional Assize Courts from 1 January 1972.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9893/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: J
Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and related courts
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Supreme Court of Judicature: The Crown Court at Preston: Indictments