UK Parliamentary Archives

Precedent file regarding the pronuniciation of Multlepoinding.

File contains correspondence and arrangements within the Judicial Office for the employment of secretarial assistance. Includes blank timesheets, comments by the Clerk of Parliaments, and a forecas...

Precedent file to document internal discussions regarding an incident when between the judgement hearing and the sentencing, a member of the panel had passed. This sparked discussions around the eq...

Correspondence regarding transcripts of judgments and applications for leave to appeal to Court of Appeal.

Procedure file concerning costs.

Correspondence regarding turning judgments of House of Lords into orders.

Precedent file relating to an appeal case between Lonrho and the Al Fayed brothers. The issue of contempt was brought up and this file is a scoping document to understand the existing precedent.

Procedural file concerning costs and submissions of judgement.

Procedure file concerning costs.

Correspondence about a potential member for the Consolidation bills committee.

Precedent cases regarding conditional leave to appeal

Precedent file regarding Donald Campbell v Pollack: Preliminary Point which was lodged on costs alone.

Correspondence regarding practice direction for civil petition.

Advice given by Judicial Office for cases in Greece and Ireland.

Correspondence regarding setting up a joint working party on civil courts and topics for consideration.

Contains practice directions in the case of contempt of court.

Precedent file regarding consolidated/conjoined cases.

Precedent file concerning the practice of Appendixes in Appeal Cases.

File contains details of a research project looking into the judicial records of the House of Lords over fifteen years, which resulted in a book. Covers access of records and closure periods.

Includes a petition seeking leave to appeal to House of Lords, correspondence regarding change of practice, discussions about issuing certificates for cases of public importance and if appeals coul...

Precedent file concerning Arbitrators

Precedent file regarding procedure for determining Petitions for Leave to Appeal.

Precedent file regarding Statement of Facts and Issues, Citation of Authorities and Counsels time estimates.

General precedent file regarding Appellate Committee proceedings.

Precedent file regarding the procedure of rehearing a petition after it had been dismissed by the committee.

File regarding the history of the committee, anniversaries, reform, appointment etc.

Precedent file concerning bail. Includes history of practice, policy and examples of precedent.

Precedent file concerning bail.

Precedent file regarding Appeal Committee Appointments.

Precedent file relating to the phrase 'heard and determined' which appears in the Justice (Appeals) Act 1934 and whether it constitutes an oral hearing.

Correspondence regarding the release of a memoranda on the appointment of Law Lords to Appeal and Appellate Committees following a question made in the House of Commons.

Precedent file concerning the anonymity in cases before the House of Lords and restrictions on reporting. This file was collated in response to Part III of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations...

Correspondence relating to the procedure of Petitions for Leave to Appeal for a criminal case. Incudes correspondence with the Royal Courts of Justice.

Correspondence detailing the new practice of counsel submitting estimates of the number of hours their submissions would take.

Files regarding the procedure of adjournment in the House of Lords. Contains deliberation regarding procedure, standing order, procedure for adjournment during floods.

Precedent file concerning cases which were dropped (abated) by the House of Lords following the death of either the Appellants or Respondents.

Precedent file relating to Ainsbury (A.P.) v Millington (A.P.) detailing how the principle stated by Viscount Simon in Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada V Jervis 1944 affected this, and potentia...

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...

The Administrative Records series contains a range of records used by the committee to administer, document and carry out its functions. The series may include such records as agendas, formal/infor...

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...

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 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...