UK Parliamentary Archives

Obituries for Law Lords. Some were written by the Judicial Office, others are clips from Hansard and newspapers.

File includes working papers on Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 and Regulations and Act of Sederunt (Civil Legal Aid Rules) 1987; S.19 Orders; Correspondence on the procedure under Legal Aid (Scotlan...

File regarding Criminal Appeals (Fees and Expenses) Regulations, 1960 followed The Legal Aid and Advice Act,1949 .

File concerning Kay and others and another (FC) (Appellants) v London Borough of Lambeth and others (Respondents). The letter clarifies that it is for the House to decide between parties who should...

Precedent file discussing particular cases before the House of Lords which were affected by the Legal Aid Act 1988. Covers S.18 orders, Legal Aid Board Objections and Civil Legal Aid Regulations.

Procedure file which includes discussions on how to apply this particular order during court sessions.

General working file on Legal Aid.

Discussions about the use of London Agents for those respondents/appellants who are outside London, when their case is in front of the House of Lords.

File concerning the Law Lords requirements for books and legal assistance with the House of Lords Library.

Precedent file regarding the pronuniciation of Multlepoinding.

Discussions on layout of Minute, how/whether to include items, moving to 'computerisation', inclusion of withdrawal of petitions/appeal entries, format and divergence of judicial and public business.

File on Anonymity, Minors - order under Children's and Young Persons Act 1933 to prohibit identification and Scottish equivalent, Interlocutory Orders covering: how cases involving minors should be...

Correspondence with Law Lords and Lord Chamberlain over repealing sections of 1881 and 1925 Acts related to matrimonial causes.

File contains one summary of the original case and how it was then brought to appeal by the Court of Appeal in Ireland because they were testing legality of the Secretary of State imposing regulati...

File contains correspondence and working papers on the supply of opinions to law libraries, law firms and members at a cost and embargos, editing opinions, opinions to counsel (before judgement), l...

Correspondence regarding Law Lords taking the Oath either in the House of Lords Chamber or during a judicial sitting. Includes correspondence about the Duke of Kent taking his oath during a judicia...

File was collated by the office to provide guidance and document precedent concerning Northern Ireland. Includes; Reference under Section 48A of the Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1968, No....

Memo on the status of children under the age of 21 under Scottish law.

This file relates to the practice of the Royal Navy appointing representatives to advise the House of Lords in the form of nautical assessors. File contains; procedure for appointing nautical asses...

Notice regarding the procedure in the administration of an estate of a deceased person. Judge may direct that the persons interested shall be served with notice and from then be bound by the procee...

List of petition titles and correspondence regarding the correct titling of petitions when the Crown/Attorney General is a party.

Precedent cases or authorities for points of law e.g. abandonment of, points not raised before in court and new interpretations upon a particular point of law.

Precedent files and cases regarding 'paupers' including: Court of Appeal judgements, legal aid and advice act, printing and costs in pauper appeals, affidavits of poverty an objecton to. General p...

Precedent Patent files and arrangement with Patents Office.

Files include pro formas, drafting procedure, note on swearing of affidavit, 19th century note on O/S in Scottish appeals, memos and proposals for consolidated appeals, stay of proceedings and revi...

Notes on a precedent case regarding opposed incidental petitions.

Practice Directions can be issued by a judge to set the practical format of a case e.g. how petition should be formatted and lodged. File contains; issues arising from promulgation of a fake practi...

Correspondence and working files regarding practice directions issued by the House of Lords.

The Red Book is guidance published of the Form of Appeal and Directions as to Procedure applicable to Criminal Appeals. Each new addition replaces the previous. This file documents amendments made ...

The Blue Book is guidance published of the Form of Appeal and Directions as to Procedure applicable to Civil Appeals. Each new addition replaces the previous. This file documents amendments made wh...

Annotated Points of Procedure. This file was collated by the office to provide guidance and document precedent.

Handwritten memo on the procedure for postponement of proceedings.

File contains bill to make provision for enabling courts to sit in private and for restricting publicity, correspondence seeking views on whether courts should hear appeals in private, draft clause...

File includes note confirming practice of prisoners attending appeals in criminal court and how House of Lords should adopt this procedure, correspondence regarding whether an appellant should atte...

File includes Court of Appeal judgment on confidentiality of legal correspondence with prisoners and how Judicial Office writes to a prisoner following judgment.

Single memoranda from Black Rod regarding discussions about admission of strangers to hear House of Lords judgments and whether press reporters should be admitted.

Correspondence on whether application can be made to hear a preliminary point in an appeal before the main hearing.

File contains correspondence regarding which Lords take precedence when sitting in appeals and delivering judgments, precedence of Counsel, whether ex-Lord Chancellor should preside at sittings of ...

File contains list of recalls of Parliament since World War II, memorandum and report of the House regarding emergency recalls, Notices of recalls, copy of Hansard confirming recall on 1 February 1...

File contains blank forms which were used in House of Lords cases.

File contains note of dissenting opinions of Law Lords of assimilating Judicial Committee of the Privy Council into other tribunals, printed material regarding procedure of Judicial Committee, note...

File contains note from Judicial Clerk on a change of policy implemented in curbing universal remittance, correspondence and memoranda detailing cases of remit 1930-43, remit to special commissione...

File contains correspondence between the solicitors of the Board of Trade and the Judicial Department with regards to McDowell vs Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and Another.

File contains correspondence to the Clerk of Parliaments from a solicitor who appeared before the Law Lords and was then not allowed to lunch in the Counsel's Dining Room. This prompted the discuss...

File contains a chronology of recusals and questions of declaration of interests throughout the 1990's and early 2000s in the form of correspondence, reports, notes, and memoranda. There is also a ...