UK Parliamentary Archives

Correspondence regarding proposed move of Judicial Office to Middlesex Guildhall and allocation of Appeal Committee within the House. This is prior to the eventual move in 2009.

Scoping file created by Her Majesty's Civil Service for the relocation of the House of Lords' Judicial functions. File includes job description for judicial clerk, a couple of agendas and correspon...

This file was created in preparation for moving the Judicial Office to the Supreme Court, included are several internal reports concerning the transfer of the petitions system, the petitions of app...

Notes on the Judicial Office's staff structure.

Includes records about staff, accounts of workload and productivity.

Contains internal discussions about the filming of Judicial Office proceedings.

Correspondence regarding setting up information systems, including a strategy study for House of Lords, setting up an IT steering group and minutes, correspondence regarding Legal Information Netwo...

Correspondence regarding; request for word processers in Judicial Office, whether the House of Lords will apply the provisions of the Data Protection Act, setting precedents for Data Protection, de...

Procedure file covering the copyright of using House of Lords Judgements online.

File documents the agreements and procedures for the Judicial Office sitting whilst Parliament is in dissolution.

File contains a range of statistics relating to the Judicial Office from 1998 - 2005.

File contains details of internal procedures for the office such as the duties and activities of the clerk. Also enclosed are some handwritten notes which detail specifically the duties of William ...

File regarding the Law Lords' increasing work load and discussions about increasing the number of Law Lords in the House of Lords.

File collated by the office regarding procedure for hiring judicial assistants.

File contains memorandum on how appeal documents are to be lodged in House of Lords and correspondence with Federation of Master Printers regarding costs of printing House of Lords appeals. This co...

File contains reference policy guidelines booklet for records management; reports and documentation on management of the Judicial Office records e.g. binding and disposal.

Memo about when the Lords sat in the Robing Room.

Precedent file containing the House of Lords Training and Development Strategy 2004-5 and an Audit Review of Staff Recruitment and Employment of Temporary and Agency Staff.

File contains press notice and statement to the House about proposed changes to the office of Lord Chancellor; printed material in response to question of how Judges of proposed Supreme Court could...

Regina v Evans and another and the Comissioner of Police for the Metropolis and others (Appellants) ex part Pinochet (Respondent) (On Appeal from a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division) R...

Regina v Evans and another and the Comissioner of Police for the Metropolis and others (Appellants) ex part Pinochet (Respondent) (On Appeal from a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division) R...

Regina v Evans and another and the Comissioner of Police for the Metropolis and others (Appellants) ex part Pinochet (Respondent) (On Appeal from a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division) R...

These records were collated by the Judicial Office to document precedent and changes in internal procedure. After discussions with former staff it was decided to create a stand alone series for int...

HL/PO/CO/EC/E contains records of Sub-Committee E on Law. The records of each Parliamentary Session may be found in a separate series. Where the records of a sub-committee carry on across session...

Records of William Jowitt, lawyer, politician and author, including correspondence with colleagues and acquaintances, transcripts of speeches on legal or political issues, newspaper cuttings relati...

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...

File contains notes and correspondence regarding the Lords of Appeal sitting during a prorogation, correspondence with Lord Chancellor's Department regarding sittings during prorogation, notes rega...

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...