UK Parliamentary Archives

Precedent file concerning the practice of Appeal Committees not meeting during prorogation and dissolution.

The introduction to this volume quotes an extract from a letter from Professor L Radzinowicz, Director of the University of Cambridge Department of Criminal Science, 1953 explaining the importance...

File contains correspondence (letters, emails and memoranda) discussing and making decisions around travel expenses and allocations to Law Lords and Members. Material also discusses travel expenses...

Mixed file regarding the Supreme Court Implementation programme. This programme was led by the Department for Constitutional Affairs but the Judicial Office, Committee Office and Clerk of the Parli...

File contains; Petitions to Vacate; Allegation that Judgement Obtained by Fraud, Petition to Leave, Vacation of a Judgement (allegation of Judicial Bias). Notes attached indicate file was used in c...

These documents relate to Spencer Perceval's role as Attorney-General.

A collection of his opinions, transcribed and selected from the numerous volumes of manuscripts which Gibbs left behind him.

This fonds contains 7 sub sub series. They are divided into General Legal Notebooks, the Bathurst Notebooks, Judge's Notebooks, Lord Chancellor's Notebooks, Chancery Notebooks, General Manuscripts ...

The Parliament Office Papers were, for the most part, the surviving records of offices and clerks in the Parliament Office before the creation of the Record Office in 1946. The bulk of the collect...

HL/BR contains the papers of Black Rod and his assistant the Staff Superintendent. HL/BR/1-HL/BR/2 contains the main run of office files which deal with the daily business of the department, parti...

The Committee Papers include some of the records of two main House of Lords Select Committees (European Communites Committee/European Union Committee and Science and; Technology Committee), particu...

Letter from Sir Samuel Romilly concerning parliamentary law. Addressed to 'My dear Sir', the letter continues 'The question which you put to me however is one upon which if I were consulted profes...

Contains; Judgement Procedure - Proposed Changes; Non Judicial Work (work with Committees); Historical notes on the Appellate Committee and Historical Notes on Acts.

The records represent the work of the Judicial Office and that of the Law Lords which it supports.

Appeal Committee Memoranda may be found in HL/PO/JU/1. Appeal Committee Draft Reports may be f...