IALS Archives Collections

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Reference: ACLEC 
Title: Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct: press cuttings
Dates: 1991-1999
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 9 archive boxes
Name of creator: Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct
Catalogue last updated: March 2022

CONTEXT

Administrative history: the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee (ACLEC) was established in 1991 under the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.  The Committee had the general duty of assisting in the maintenance and development of standards in the education, training and conduct of those offering legal services.  In the field of legal education and training, its brief was as follows:

1. 1. to keep under review the education and training of those who offer to provide legal services;
2. to consider the need for continuing education and training for such persons and the form it should take;
3. to consider the steps which professional and other bodies should take to ensure that their members benefit from such continuing education and training.

ACLEC was abolished by Statutory Instrument 1999 No.3296.  Its functions were taken over by a new Legal Services Consultative Panel within the Lord Chancellor’s Department.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: the material comprises press cuttings for 1991 and 1993-1999 (cuttings for 1992 are missing).  The cuttings refer to items of interest to, and relating to, ACLEC in areas such as legal education and training, conduct, complaints, equal opportunities, legal aid and overseas issues.  

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement: the cuttings are arranged chronologically; within each chronological grouping (approximately one month) they are further arranged into subject headings, with a descriptive note at the front of each group of cuttings.  Each group has been allocated a number, which is included in the item description below; some are missing e.g. all for 1992; nos 9-12 for 1999.

Accruals: no further accruals are expected.

Access: open

Copyright: refer to individual items for newspaper references; copyright resides with the relevant publication.  Copyright in the summary lists at the front of each monthly collection belongs to the Lord Chancellor’s Department.  

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: in 1999 a set of press cuttings relating to ACLEC’s activities was offered by the ACLEC Secretary to Avrom Sherr, Woolf Professor of Legal Education at IALS.  Professor Sherr passed them to the Records of Legal Education Archives (now part of the IALS Archives) in 2000.  

Terms of deposit: none.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: the IALS Archives holds some material of the Advisory Committee on Legal Education, the predecessor body to ACLEC, as follows:  

• Dr S B Marsh’s papers as a member of the Advisory Committee are in the IALS Archives’ collection of Marsh papers (ref: MARSH 02). 
• Professor James Read's papers as a member of the Advisory Committee will be found in the IALS Archives’ READ collection (ref: READ 01). 
• The Council of Legal Education’s annotated copies of Committee papers are in the CLE collection in the IALS Archives (ref: CLE 58).

Related material available elsewhere: ACLEC was a statutory body whose records were transferred to The National Archives (TNA). They will be found under the following TNA class numbers:

• KP1 Registered files 1991-1999
• KP2 Publications 1991-1999 

The Committee also produced an annual report detailing its activities and several other publications, most of which should be available in law libraries.  Digital copies of the Annual Reports from 1991-1995 are available on the Ministry for Justice website here: https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=Lord+chancellor%27s+Advisory+Committee&order=relevance

A second set of press cuttings is held by Warwick University.  

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 2000 by Clare Cowling, Archivist. The catalogue was updated in 2020 and 2022 by Clare Cowling.

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Association of Law Teachers: Archives, 1965-2011

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Membership Secretary: Dionne Cruickshank
Email:  dionne.cruickshank@nmlscle.com
Website:  http://lawteacher.ac.uk/

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: ALT  
Title: Association of Law Teachers Archives
Dates:  1965-2019
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 8 archive boxes of paper files (2 linear metres)
Name of creator: Association of Law Teachers
Catalogue last updated: September 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative History
Foundation: The Association of Law Teachers (ALT) was conceived in 1965 by a group of law teachers from institutions other than universities who met at Taplow in Buckinghamshire to discuss the particular problems of teaching law faced by such institutions.  The following year a steering committee met in London to officially establish the ALT to represent the growing interest in law in Regional Colleges of Technology, further education colleges and schools.  Initial funding came from the publishers Sweet & Maxwell.  

Aims: In its Constitution, the objects of the ALT were laid down as follows:

a) to further the advancement, development, study, understanding, use and reformof the educational aspects of law and its teaching;

b) to represent and make known the views of its members upon matters relating to or affecting their professional interests as teachers of law;

c) to establish and support or aid in the establishment and support of associations and institutions calculated to benefit the objects of the Association or the members of the Association or the dependants or connections of such members and to subscribe to or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any public, general or useful object;

d) to do all things consistent with these objects considered by the Association or its Committee to be necessary, conducive or incidental to the promotion of the professional, social or general welfare of its members.

Membership: The present membership of the ALT is drawn from teachers in higher (largely, but not exclusively the new universities), further and tertiary education.  It focuses primarily on the pedagogy and androgogy of law, teaching and learning methods and assessment, and fosters research in these fields, including the 1993 and 1997 Harris surveys of legal education (Harris, P and Bellerby, S. with Leighton, P and Hodgson, J, A Survey of Law Teaching 1997, ALT, 1993; Harris, P and Jones, M, "A Survey of Law Schools in the United Kingdom", (1997), The Law Teacher 38).  Until about 1990 the ALT was the only representative body for Polytechnic law teachers, and in the 1970s and 1980s it also provided a general forum for discussion of doctrinal legal issues.  This remains a subsidiary function.

Activities: The ALT's activities are run by a Committee comprising an elected Chairman, Vice-chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, plus five elected members and some co-opted members.  Regular events include the Upjohn Lecture, the Annual Conference and one-day conferences.  The ALT makes representations to a variety of official bodies concerning all aspects of law teaching, and is also represented on a number of these bodies.  It has close links with the SPTL, which represents university law teachers.  The ALT produces a regular Bulletin and a Journal, and a history of the Association has been written by a former President, Dr S B Marsh (The Association of Law Teachers: the first 25 years, ALT, 1990).

Publications: Harris, P and Bellerby, S with Leighton, P and Hodgson, J, A Survey of Law Teaching 1997 (ALT, 1993); Harris, P and Jones, M, "A Survey of Law Schools in the United Kingdom", (1997), The Law Teacher 38; Dr S B Marsh The Association of Law Teachers: the first 25 years (ALT, 1990); the ALT produces a regular Bulletin and a Journal.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: The archive of the Association of Law Teachers comprises agenda, minutes and papers of the Committee of the ALT and its predecessors, 1965-1996; minutes and papers of Annual General Meetings, 1968-1996; accounts, reports and papers presented to Committee and to AGMs, 1976-1992; legal documents, reference papers and lists of officers, 1974-1993; correspondence, 1979-1994; papers relating to Annual Conferences, 1965-1994; editions of the ALT Bulletin, 1966-1997; Journal of the ALT, later The Law Teacher, 1967-1997; Directory of Members, 1969-1996; ALT Handbook, [1980]; ALT papers distributed to members, 1967-1972; miscellaneous ALT publications and offprints, 1980-1993. 

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

System of arrangement: Arranged in series as in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:  Open

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 
Copyright: copyright was transferred to the IALS Archives in 1996.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: The surviving archive of the ALT was transferred as a gift to the Records of Legal Education Archives (now subsumed into the IALS Archives) by the Secretary, John Hodgson, of Nottingham Trent University, in 1996.  Some related papers and printed material were deposited by Dr Marsh and by Professor James Read of SOAS in 1997.

Immediate source of acquisition: A file detailing the transfer and terms of deposit is held in the Records of Legal Education Project collection at RLEP 8/1.

Terms of deposit: Original deposit transferred by Deed of Gift in 1996.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:  the records were appraised, weeded, removed from their original containers and placed in acid-free folders and boxes by the Archivist.  Original file titles are noted in the item list below.

Accruals: Further transfers of records are expected. 

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: A history of the first 25 years of the ALT was produced by Dr S B Marsh in 1990 and published as: The Association of Law Teachers; the First 25 Years, ALT, 1990.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Archivist. .  It was updated in 2020, 2022 and 2024.  The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities at the Inns of Court School of Law (Barrow Inquiry): Records of Ruth Deech, Committee member, 1989-1994

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: BARR
Title: Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities at the Inns of Court School of Law (Barrow Inquiry): Records of Ruth Deech, Committee member
Dates:  1989-1994
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 9 archive boxes (2 linear metres)
Name of creator: Ruth Deech, member of the Barrow Committee
Catalogue last updated: October 2022

CONTEXT

Administrative History

the Committee of Inquiry was established in March 1993 "to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into the policies and practices of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) and the Inns of Court School of Law (ICSL).  It was an independent inquiry but funded by the CLE.  The creation of the Committee was partly in response to a large disparity in pass rates between black and ethnic minority students and white students on the Bar Vocational Course (BVC), uncovered by ethnic monitoring of the 1991/1992 intake, and partly in response to the large body of complaints about the course which had been lodged with the General Council of the Bar, and the CLE itself." (Final Report, Apr 1994, Introduction 3.1 p.8).

The Inquiry was chaired by Dame Jocelyn Barrow (Deputy Chairman, Broadcasting Standards Council), from whom the short title "Barrow Inquiry" derives.  Its members were Ruth Deech (Principal, St Anne's College Oxford), Jo Larbie (Director of Legal Education and Training of the Legal Resources Group), Rajeev Loomba (course leader for the Legal Practice Course, University of Northumbria) and David J Smith (Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Institute).

The Inquiry's terms of reference were to identify the reasons for disparities in the level of performance of ethnic minorities on the BVC from 1991/92, to investigate allegations of racial discrimination and to investigate and make recommendations on teaching, assessment and pastoral care of students and for the further development of an equal opportunities policy by the CLE.
The Inquiry employed a number of research methods as follows: 

1. Statistical analysis, using as a starting point Dr Christopher Dewberry's 1991/1992 analysis of disparities between white and ethnic minority student pass rates; the Inquiry conducted further similar surveys and analyses.
2. Qualitative research, including:
   - oral hearings of evidence such as interviews with students, staff, assessors, CLE and General Council of the Bar members;
   - written submissions from interested parties;
   - comments from students, followed by an analysis by Dr Robin Oakley.
3. Direct observation of teaching and assessment. 
4. Collection and analysis of teaching materials relating to the BVC.
5. Following the Interim Report of September 1993, provision of a formal submission from the ICSL/CLE on teaching, assessment and pastoral care.
6. Consideration of the complaints of 29 individual students.
7. Comparison of the BVC with other jurisdictions, in the UK and abroad.

Publications: Equal Opportunities at the Inns of Court School of Law: the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities on the Bar Vocational Course (April 1994).

CONTENT

Scope and content:  the records comprise the papers of Ruth Deech, Principal, St Anne's College Oxford and a member of the Inquiry team, relating to the Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities at the Inns of Court School of Law, chaired by Dame Jocelyn Barrow (Barrow Inquiry), 1989-1994. The records do not comprise the official papers of the Inquiry, which are held elsewhere, and do not form a complete set, but they do include the bulk of the material. 

The records comprise: terms of reference and background to Inquiry, 1993-1994; direct observations of teaching and assessment, 1993; background information collected by the Inquiry, 1992-1993; information on admissions policy and procedures, 1991-1994; student questionnaire, 1993; information on assessment and review, 1990-1993; information on course content, 1990-1992; documents relating to staff training, 1992-1993; documents relating to student welfare, 1989-1994; collection and analysis of teaching materials, such as course outlines, practical training exercises, instructors' teaching packs, ICSL manuals, and printed material, 1990-1993; consideration of complaints of individual students, 1993; Interim Report of the Committee of Inquiry, 1993; CLE/ICSL response to the Interim Report, [1993]; Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry, 1994.

Certain information, such as the oral submissions and individual questionnaire, is not extant due to guarantees of confidentiality.  One or two other documents are also missing from the archive; where this is the case it is noted in the series list by the use of the archival term "wanting".

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement: the list attempts to mirror the methodology of the Inquiry as closely as possible, whilst still adhering to any existing filing and numbering systems employed during the Inquiry.

Conditions governing access: printed/published material at BARR 07, BARR 10, BARR 11, BARR 14 and BARR 16, plus all items in BARR 12, are open other than the ICSL Handbooks. The remaining material is closed for 50 years after the last date on each file other than items containing personal data, which are closed for 75 years. Closed items are designated in red .

Copyright: copyright originally vested in the Council of Legal Education. The ICSL inherited responsibility for the Barrow enquiry records.  In 2001, the ICSL became part of City, University of London, and is now known as The City Law School.

Conditions governing reproduction: copies of open material may be made for private use. Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder. A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history: the records comprise papers passed to the IALS Library by Mrs Ruth Deech, Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford, and a member of the Committee of Inquiry.

Immediate source of acquisition: transferred to the Records of Legal Education Archives (now part of the IALS Archives) in 1995 by the IALS Librarian.

Terms of deposit: no formal deed of deposit was agreed.  A 50 year closure period for the records was requested by the Registrar, Inns of Court School of Law, in 1998.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: listed and appraised in 1995 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.  Duplicate material was confidentially destroyed. 

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related Material: the Council of Legal Education’s submission to the Inquiry will be found in the IALS Archives (archive of the Council of Legal Education ref: CLE 69).
Most secondary source material collected during the Inquiry, such as information comparing the BVC with other jurisdictions, is not included in these papers but is listed in the Final Report of the Committee.  The Final Report (Equal Opportunities at the Inns of Court School of Law: the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities on the Bar Vocational Course, published April 1994) will be found at BARR 16 in the archive, as well as in most law libraries, including the IALS Library.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: 
Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 2000 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.  It was updated by Clare Cowling in 2020 and 2022. 
The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Address: The Bar Council, 289-293 High Holborn, London WC1V 7HZ
Secretary: Natalie Zara, Head of Governance 
Telephone: 020 7242 0082
Email: nzara@barcouncil.org.uk 
Website: https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code: BCO
Held at: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)
Title: The Bar Council Archives
Date(s):  1883-1999
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent and form: 117 volumes, 45 files, 28 booklets and 113 documents 
Name of creator(s): The Bar Council
Catalogue last updated: May 2023 

CONTEXT 

Administrative history: The General Council of the Bar (now The Bar Council) was created in 1894 to deal with breaches of a barrister's professional etiquette, something that had previously been handled by the judiciary.  Along with the Inns of Court it formed the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar in 1974, a union that was broken up on 1 January 1987 following a report by Lord Rawlinson. The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 designated the Bar Council as the professional body for barristers, with the role as a regulatory body being split off in 2006 to form the Bar Standards Board. 

The Bar Council is the professional association for barristers in England and Wales.

CONTENT 

Scope and content:  includes: Minutes, Agenda & Papers of the Council and committees; Regulations and Bylaws; Correspondence; Subject files; Publications; Bar Council Reports; Annual Statements; Submissions to Royal Commissions and external bodies; Royal Commission Reports; Senate of the Four Inns of Court minutes and statements.

ACCESS AND USE 

Language/scripts of material: English 

System of arrangement: Chronologically within series unless otherwise stated.

Conditions governing access: The Bar Council operates a 10 year closure rule for its material.  At the time of writing this means that all records in the catalogue are open other than material closed for 75 years in accordance with the Data Protection Act or for reasons of confidentiality and to protect personal privacy. Closed items are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: copies may be made for private use.  Copying of material is at the archivist’s discretion. Some material may be too fragile for copying. Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: The Bar Council

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: The collection consists of all the surviving material relating to The Bar Council and, with the exception of duplicates, has been preserved in its entirety.

Accruals: Further accruals are not expected.

Archival history: The records were transferred from The Bar Council to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 2012.

Immediate source of acquisition: The Bar Council.

ALLIED MATERIALS 

Other archive material relating to the history of the Bar is included in the Council of Legal Education archives (held at IALS Archives: ref CLE) and in the Archives of the Inns of Court.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: Original catalogue compiled by Elizabeth Dawson inn 2014.  Further accruals were catalogued by Catherine Wakeling, with additional material by George Bray and Elizabeth Dawson.  The catalogue was updated in 2024 by Clare Cowling.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) Archives, 1969-2022

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Email:  https://biall.org.uk/contact-us/
BIALL Secretary: secretary@biall.org.uk
Website:  https://biall.org.uk/  

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference: BIALL 
Title: British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Archives
Dates: 1969-2022
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 68 archive boxes (17 linear metres); 35 PDF files (9 MB)
Name of creator: British and Irish Association of Law Librarians
Catalogue last updated: February 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative History:

Foundation: The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) arose from an Ad Hoc Committee which was convened at the First Workshop on Law Librarianship, Leeds, 1968.  The purpose of the Ad Hoc Committee was to investigate the possibility of setting up a British equivalent to the International Association of Law Libraries.
BIALL was formally established on 16 April 1969 at the Second Workshop on Law Librarianship, in Harrogate.  The first AGM was held in September that year.  Although affiliation to other groups such as the International Association of Law Librarians and The Library Association had been suggested, BIALL was set up as an independent body. 

Aims: The original aims of the organisation were: to hold conferences and provide forums for people to meet and discuss questions relating to law libraries; to promote the better administration of law libraries; to promote the role of law librarian; to promote bibliographical study and research; to publish information of interest to the membership; and to work with other bodies for the benefit of the Association.  By 2010 these aims had been re-cast as:

• To promote better administration and exploitation of law libraries and legal information units.       
• To enhance the professionalism and status of the legal information profession.
• To generally benefit members of BIALL in their work.       
• To unite and co-ordinate the interests, opinions and activities of legal information professionals into a single influential voice.

Management and administration:

BIALL is managed by a Council (called the Executive Committee until 1983) and a variety of Standing Committees and Sub-Committees.  The activities of the organisation are governed by the Constitution, Regulations and Standing Orders.
The original officers were a President and Vice-President, Chairman, the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, and the Honorary Editor, whilst the Executive Committee comprised five members.

Administrative Chronology:

• 1969 First Constitution produced.
• 1972 Rules were amended regarding membership and limited the number of times the chairman could seek re-election.
• 1976 Roles of Hon. Secretary and Treasurer were split.
• 1978 Rules were amended to permit postal voting (Standing Order No.1); membership categories were clarified; the Editorial Board for The Law Librarian was formed.
• 1983 Executive Committee was renamed Council; additional membership categories were introduced; six standing committees of Council were appointed (Cataloguing and Classification; Library Provision and Information Services; Education and Training; Publications; Official Publications; Editorial Board of the Journal), some continuing the work of previously-existing committees.
• 1987 Amendment to a Regulation was passed at the 1987 AGM and the position of Membership Secretary was created, and the Honorary Secretary’s work re membership was transferred to this post.
• 1988 Three further standing orders were introduced regarding Joint Ventures and Membership.
• 1989 Constitution amended to make the Membership Secretary an Officer of BIALL.
• 1994  A review of the structure of BIALL in 1992-1993 resulted in the 1994 Constitution: offices of Vice-Chair and Immediate Past-Chair; Hon Secretary and Hon Treasurer were elected for 2 year terms and eligible for one re-election; Hon Editor and Membership Secretary were removed from Council.
• 1995 Editorship of The Law Librarian became a paid post.
• 2007 Constitution amended.
• 2008 Regulations were amended and the offices of Chair, Vice-Chair and Immediate Past-Chair were renamed President, President Elect and Immediate Past President.

Until 1999, the Association’s financial year ran from 1 July to 30 June.  From 1999, it ran from 1 April to 31 March.

Activities Chronology:

• 1970 First issue of The Law Librarian issued; first Annual Study Conference organised.
• 1971 Report on Co-operation produced; Duplicates Exchange Scheme set up.
• 1976 Manual of Law Librarianship published; Directory of Law Libraries in the British Isles published.
• 1980 Leaflet on careers in law librarianship produced for the first time; survey of staffing levels in university law libraries.
• 1981 Standards for Law Libraries published.
• 1983 Newsletter launched; Recommended Holdings for Law Libraries, an appendix to the 1981 Standards for Law Libraries published.
• 1984 First Salary Survey conducted, published in The Law Librarian in 1985.
• 1987 Manual of Law Librarianship 2nd ed published.
• 1991 Award set up in Wallace Breem’s memory.
• 1996 BIALL website launched.
• 1998 SIGs dissolved.
• 1999 AGM and Annual Study Conference moved from September to June; Law and Order: trends in legal information provision published.
• 2000 Publication of A History of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 1969-1999 by Mary Blake with the assistance of Derek Way.
• 2001 The Law Librarian renamed Legal Information Management.
• 2004 Award of first Betty Moys Bursary.
• 2005 First Willi Steiner Memorial Lecture; BIALL Code of Good Practice for Legal Publishers launched.

Sources: 

• A History of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 1969-1999 by Mary Blake (for a copy see BIALL 11/01)
• Highlights from BIALL’s History, https://biall.org.uk/history/, accessed 23 March 2020.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: the collection comprises the working papers of BIALL, covering governance and management, administration, financial records, membership matters, conferences and publications.

Of the original deposit of material (BIALL/1 to BIALL/27), series BIALL/1 to BIALL/25 comprised the papers created, gathered and arranged by Mary Blake in her roles as BIALL’s Honorary Secretary, Vice President and President, its historian and its honorary archivist.  The files represent a working filing system which supported these five roles.  

BIALL/1 to BIALL/8 were designated by Blake as primary records and comprise AGM papers, records of the Annual Study Conference and its administration, the constitutional records of BIALL, and Council Minutes and papers.  Further papers have been added to these series as they were received.
BIALL/9 to BIALL/25 were designated as secondary files and are effectively a set of subject files.  In particular, the Committees series (BIALL/14) contains minutes, annual reports and reports from the various Standing and Sub-Committees which have been convened by BIALL.  These files often contain photocopies of subject-relevant material from elsewhere in the collection, as well as Mary Blake’s own annotations regarding the history of a committee or indicating where minutes have not been transferred to the archive.

In addition to this filing structure, in the original deposit of material there were also:

• Publications (BIALL/26).
• Records of the Legal Information Management Editorial Board which had been transferred to Mary Blake but had not been integrated into the filing structure (BIALL/27).

Subsequent accruals of material (BIALL/28 onwards) were received as separate deposits from officers and former officers of BIALL.  These have been either arranged into separate series or added as continuations to existing series.  

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and German.

System of arrangement: 

Series BIALL/1 to BIALL/27 inclusive form the first deposit of records.  BIALL/1 to BIALL/25 had been arranged by Mary Blake, Honorary Archivist, prior to the material being transferred to IALS.  The records had been consciously arranged and files deliberately constructed in order to present the history of BIALL. This structure was preserved during the first cataloguing project. In addition, there were two other sets of material which had not been integrated into this structure: the files of the Legal Information Management Editorial Board (BIALL/27) and publications (BIALL/26). 

Accruals received between 2010 and 2014 were catalogued in 2014 either as new series (from BIALL/28 onwards) or added to existing series as appropriate.  

In 2022 the catalogue was amended to amalgamate series which had originally been catalogued as separate entities, primarily council, committee, board, groups and finance records.  This necessitated some series being renumbered, though every effort was made to keep the original numbers where possible. 

A separate set of material, received from the Executors of the estate of Elizabeth Moys, was catalogued as a separate collection as it related to her publications rather than her work with BIALL and is, in effect, a separate collection which had been deposited with BIALL.  It is held in the IALS Archives as ref: MOYS.

Conditions governing access: 

All published material open; other items open after 20 years, except for specified items containing personal or sensitive information, which are CLOSED for 75 years under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998. 

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: BIALL.  

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: 

Most of the material in BIALL/1 to BIALL/26 was in the custody of Mary Blake, Honorary Archivist.  It was accumulated in the following stages:

• In 1976, Wallace Breem, Honorary Secretary, transferred the secretary’s files to the new Honorary Secretary, Mary Blake (his records relating to the role of Treasurer were transferred to Robert Logan and do not form part of the archive).
• In 1987, when Mary Blake handed over the role of Honorary Secretary to Hilary Boucher, the current files were transferred to Hilary whilst Mary retained the older material for pragmatic reasons.
• A system developed whereby Mary Blake became custodian for the Secretary’s files, with people transferring to her as and when necessary.
• Mary Blake held the offices of Vice-President (1987-1993) and President (1993-1999) and continued to update the files.
• In 1998, the History of BIALL was proposed and so the records were transferred to Mary Blake’s house.  At this point officers in general began depositing files.

Subsequent material has been transferred by officers and members of BIALL, including a further deposit of Mary Blake’s papers transferred after her death, and added to the relevant series as appropriate.

Immediate source of acquisition: The original deposit of material was transferred to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 2010 by the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.  Subsequent accruals have been received from officers and former officers of BIALL.

Terms of deposit: Transferred to the IALS Archives by Deed of Deposit dated 2010.  A revised Deed of Deposit increasing the access closure period from 10 to 20 years was signed in 2022.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: 

The following was de-accessioned during cataloguing:

• Loose duplicates of material.  
• Original articles and corrected proofs for the Law Librarian: the final versions of these available in the journal.
• Financial records with low informational value (petty cash slips; stamp books etc).
• Third party material eg brochures for conference venues.

Accruals: Regular accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related Material:

MOYS Collection: these papers have been catalogued separately (see note on arrangement above) and are also held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Archive (MOYS 01–03).

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: Rules or conventions: compiled by Melanie Peart in 2010 in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.  Accruals received between 2010 and 2014 were catalogued in 2014 by Melanie Peart.  Subsequent accruals have been added to the catalogue by Ruth Frendo, Sian Astill and Clare Cowling.

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Address: Janey Robins, Administrative Secretary 
Email:  janey.robins@chuls.ac.uk
Website:  http://chuls.ac.uk/

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference: CHULS
Title: Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools
Dates: 1974-2009
Level: collection (fonds)
Extent and Medium: 11 archive boxes (3 linear metres)
Name of Creator: Committee of Heads of University Law Schools; now Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools
Catalogue last updated: February 2024

CONTEXT

Biographical/Administrative History: CHULS began its active life as a Society of Public Teachers of Law (SPTL; now the Society of Legal Scholars) committee concerned with specific issues relating to law schools and law teaching in universities.  Its first meeting was held under SPTL auspices at IALS on 27th September 1974, when the President of SPTL, Professor C F Parker, was appointed to the Chairmanship of CHULS.  At its fourth meeting on 28th November 1975, it was agreed that CHULS should cease to be a committee of SPTL but should be constituted instead as an autonomous body, though close links with SPTL were still to be maintained.  CHULS developed initially as a committee whose members represented all law schools in universities financed by the University Grants Committee, which taught a law degree.  Representatives of polytechnics, the Inns of Court School of Law and the College of Law were thus excluded. 

In September 1984 the Committee agreed on the desirability of holding joint meetings with the Heads of Polytechnic Law Schools, who had formed their own Committee to represent institutions offering CNAA degrees carrying exemption from the academic stage of professional education.  On February 11 1992 a meeting was held to discuss a merger of the two Committees.  The merger finally took place on 30 November 1992, with the creation of a newly constituted CHULS/consisting of an Executive Committee with powers to appoint sub-committees as required.  Membership was open to all institutions currently in membership of the two earlier committees, and other institutions of higher education which were in receipt of funding from a higher education funding council and which offered their own law degrees recognised by the professional bodies as giving exemption from the academic stage of legal education were made eligible to apply.

Officers of the reconstituted Committee consisted of a Chairman, Vice-chairman, Secretary and Treasurer.  In 1996 the two latter offices were amalgamated.

CHULS' activities have included gathering information on staff recruitment and student admission procedures, monitoring the impact of Law Society and CLE regulations and of new teaching courses, reporting on funding for legal research and law libraries, examination of copyright on legal materials and provision of advice to bodies such as the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committees on Legal Education.  Some of its findings have been published.

Aims: CHULS sees its role as:

• representing law schools and their management to the funding councils and other established committees in the legal sector;
• promoting mutual respect and active co-operation between law schools regionally, nationally and internationally;
• considering and advising relevant bodies on the structure, development and resourcing of legal education;
• disseminating information and good practice concerning legal education, assisting in the promotion of good management practice in law schools;
• liaising with the Association of Law Teachers, the Society of Legal Scholars and other bodies on matters of mutual interest.

CONTENT

Scope and Content: The material comprises primarily minutes and correspondence, deposited at various times by officers of CHULS.
Language of Scripts: English 
System of Arrangement: see series list below.

ACCESS AND USE

Conditions of Access: Open 20 years after last date on file.  Records containing personal data are closed for 75 years after last date on file.

Copyright: Vested in CHULS  

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION:

Archival history: in 1997 an agreement was made between CHULS and the records of Legal Education Archives (now part of the IALS Archives) to deposit the archive of CHULS as a gift and to transfer further records at regular intervals to the Archives.   For details see the Records of Legal Education Project archive file RLEP 8/3.

Immediate source of acquisition: 

• The agenda, minutes and papers of the Committee, 1989-1992, were deposited in 1997 by Professor P Jackson, CHULS Secretary.
• Those from 1992 to 2002 were deposited by Professor R W Painter, Secretary/Treasurer. 
• Papers of the CHULS Working Party on Four Year Degrees and the Working Party on Implications for Law as a Discipline of the Leverhulme Report and the Circular Letter from the Chairman of the University Grants Committee (UGC), were deposited in 1996 by Professor W L Twining, Chairman and Convenor.
• The majority of the correspondence and papers of Professor G Zellick was deposited in 1999 by Professor Zellick. 
• Further correspondence and papers, 1988-1990, were deposited in 1999 by Professor Painter.
• In 2008 Professor Nicholas Wikeley deposited his papers relating to CHULS’ response to HEFCE consultations on the review of Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs) and membership of RAE panels, 1995-2001.  Professor Wikeley was the first point of contact on RAE matters at this time.
• In 2014 Professor Stephen Bailey deposited a collection of minutes, correspondence and other papers dating from 1990-1998, covering his time as an officer of the CHULS and also as CHULS representative on the Standing Conference on Legal Education (SCLE) and an officer of the Society of Law Teachers (SLS).  Papers of the latter organisation have been removed to the SPTL/SLS collection in the IALS Archives. 

Terms of deposit: Original deposit transferred by Deed of Gift in 1997.  Later material appears to have been deposited without any conditions.  In 2020 an updated Deposit Agreement valid for 10 years was agreed.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: The original deposit of records was appraised and listed by the Co-ordinator of the Records of Legal Education project between 1996 and 1998.

Accruals:  Further accruals are expected. 

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: Original catalogue compiled in 1999 by Clare Cowling, Archivist. Further accruals were catalogued in 2002 and in 2020.  The catalogue was further updated in 2022-2024.

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: CLE  
Title: Council of Legal Education Archives
Dates: 1852-1997
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 57 archive boxes, 111 volumes, 69 folders (18 shelf metres)
Name of creator: Council of Legal Education
Catalogue last updated: February 2024 

CONTEXT

Administrative history: The Council of Legal Education (CLE) was established by Resolutions of the Inns of Court in 1852, following the recommendation that year of a Legal Education Committee of the Four Inns.  The CLE, consisting of eight members under the Chairmanship of Richard Bethell Q.C. (later Lord Westbury), was entrusted with the power and duty of superintending the education and examination of students who had been admitted to the Inns and was to consist of an equal number of Benchers appointed by each of the Inns.  Five Readerships or Professorships were set up, to each deliver three courses of lectures per year. Students were required to attend a certain number of lectures and to pass public examinations. The examinations were held thrice yearly, in Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity terms.  The CLE was given the power to grant dispensations to students unable to attend all required lectures.

In 1872 membership of the Council was increased from eight to twenty and a compulsory examination for Call to the Bar was introduced.  A further recommendation was made that the Council appoint a committee of its members to be called the Committee of Education and Examination; this Committee later became the Board of Studies.  A Director of Legal Studies was appointed in 1905.

The constant increase in the number of students and consequent growth in the CLE's activities led to the Council's decision in 1915 to appoint a permanent Finance (later Finance and Administration) Committee for the regulation of its expenditure and in 1916 to create the post of Council Secretary.

The CLE initially met in the Library of Lincoln's Inn.  In 1903 it moved to 15 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, where it remained until 1947.  The CLE then moved to 7 Stone Buildings, where it was able to provide lecture rooms, common and reading room accommodation and canteen facilities for students.  In 1964 the CLE gained the first home for law teaching with premises in Gray's Inn, donated by the Inn.  In 1967 the Inns of Court School of Law (ICSL) was formally established on the site; it became an incorporated body in 1996.

In 1967, as a consequence of the institution of the Senate of the Inns of Court as a central body to represent the Inns, the CLE was reconstituted under regulation of the Senate, which now appointed the Chairman and five other representatives of Council, and which had general policy-making powers.  For the first time the CLE had representatives from the Bar Council as well as from the Inns.  A new system of education and training, drawn up by the CLE in 1967, was approved by the Senate, to take effect from 1969.  This included the appointment of a professional law teacher as Dean of Faculty (later re-titled Dean of ICSL), replacing the old position of Director of Legal Studies, and the inauguration of new practical training programmes.

In 1974, following the recommendations of the Pearce and Templeman Committee, a new body, the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar, was set up.  The CLE was reconstituted under the Regulations of the new Senate, and its membership and functions redefined. 

During the 1970s the CLE faced the major task of implementing the recommendations of the Ormrod Report (of the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Legal Education) and the Cross Committee (Advisory Committee on Legal Education) relating to graduate entry to the profession, and the transfer of Part 1 teaching to the universities and polytechnics.

The CLE continued to oversee legal education for the Bar until 1997. In that year the CLE transferred most of its responsibilities and assets to the ICSL.  Its responsibility for supporting education and training for the Bar was passed to a new body, the Inns of Court and Bar Educational Trust (ICBET), while its regulatory function was passed to the General Council of the Bar.  In 1997 the CLE ceased to operate.  

CONTENT 

Scope and content: The archive of the Council of Legal Education comprises: minutes and papers of Committees of the Inns of Court, 1845-1962; minutes of proceedings of the Council of Legal Education, 1852-1997; duplicate minutes of Council meetings, 1856-1864; Council agenda, minutes and papers, 1968-1997; Consolidated Regulations of the Four Inns of Court, 1852-1995; printed documents, 1852-1933; cash books, 1852-1915; records of vouchers for payments, 1864-1912; CLE payments by the Inns of Court, 1879-1912; ledger, lecture payments, 1897-1915; examinations performance records, 1861-1957; CLE letter book, 1866-1867; minute book of the Committee of the CLE on Education and Examinations, 1872-1881; Annual Reports, 1893-1967; CLE calendars, 1901-1992; draft joint report on Clifford's Inn and the sale of New Inn, 1902; register of attendance at periodic lectures, 1903-1922; minute books of the Board of Studies, 1907-1995; Board of Studies agenda, minutes and papers, 1968-1996; exemption cases books, 1927-1951; minute books of the Finance (later Finance and Administration) Committee, 1915-1997; duplicate Finance Committee minute book, 1945-1950; Finance (later Finance and Administration) Committee agenda, minutes and papers, 1968-1996; Finance Committee correspondence and papers, 1942-1971; New Inn and Common Fund abstracts of accounts, 1905-1940; New Inn Fund ledgers, 1915-1965; New Inn Fund cash book, 1916-1952; Common Fund ledgers, 1915-1961; Common Fund cash books, 1924-1950; petty cash book, 1927-1942; audit book, 1945-1964; submissions for payment book, 1948-1959; House Committee minute book, 1949-1951; income and expenditure books, 1950-1980; income and expenditure books, itemised accounts, 1969-1984; account book, special accounts, 1969-1980; payroll books, 1970-1984; audited annual accounts, 1971-1995; historical files, teaching and examinations, 1906-1967; historical files, CLE history and students, 1937-1984; historical files, miscellaneous reports and papers, 1951-1989; historical files, memoranda and reports on legal education, 1969-1984; historical files, miscellaneous correspondence, 1966-1986; Chairman's correspondence, 1967-1973; Dean of Faculty's correspondence, [1960]-1991; Dean's general correspondence and papers, 1980-1981; Dean's overseas correspondence, 1959-1994; Dean's correspondence with university law schools, 1972-1991; Dean's correspondence and papers relating to financial matters, 1973-1995; Special Committee on Legal Education/Legal Education Sub-committee records, 1962-1970; records relating to the Post Final Practical Training Course (PFPTC), 1950-1966; records relating to changes in part 1 of the Bar examinations, 1963-1966; examination papers, 1970-1991; Students' Welfare Committee records, 1967-1980; student appeals files (sample cases only), 1969-1982; report to the Inns of Court and the Council of the Law Society on the education of the two branches of the legal profession and easier transfer between them (Diplock Report), 1965; papers relating to the Report of the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Legal Education (Ormrod Committee), 1966-1975; Advisory Committee on Legal Education papers, 1972-1990; Common Professional Education Board records, 1973-1981; Incorporation Sub-committee records, 1970; submissions and papers relating to the Royal Commission on Legal Services (Benson Commission), 1976-1980; Practical Exercise Sub-committee (Potter Committee) papers, 1985-1988; Curriculum Development Working Party records, 1987-1990; Bar Vocational Course papers, 1989-1996; Bar Examination Staff Working Party records, 1991-1993; Further Education and Training for the Bar Working Party (Phillips Working Party) records, 1992-1994; papers relating to racial discrimination complaints, 1989-1996; Discrimination Awareness Group records, 1992-1995; papers relating to the CLE response to the Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities on the Bar Vocational Course (Barrow Inquiry), 1992-1993; papers relating to the restructuring of the CLE, 1992-1996.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

System of arrangement: Refer to individual series descriptions.

Conditions governing access:  Open to most items over 30 years old other than papers relating to the Barrow report at CLE/69, which are closed for 50 years in line with the closure period for the BARROW Enquiry papers and records closed for 75 years because they contain personal data.  Closed items are designated in red.

Applications by bona fide researchers for accelerated access should be addressed to the Chair of the Trustees, The Inns of Court and Bar Educational Trust (ICBET), 9 Gray’s Inn Square, London WC1R 5JF, giving reasons for the request.

Conditions governing reproduction: digital copies of material may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. Many of the CLE's minute books and volumes of documents are in a fragile condition and therefore may not be photocopied.

Copyright: Vested in the University of London for the period of the loan.  

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: The surviving archive of the CLE, other than student records (see below under ALLIED MATERIALS), was transferred to the Records of Legal Education Archives (now subsumed into the IALS Archives) by ICBET in 1997.

Immediate source of acquisition: A file detailing the transfer and terms of deposit is held in the Records of Legal Education Project collection at RLEP 08/4.   

Terms of deposit: Deposited on permanent loan in 1998.  A revised Deposit Agreement was signed in 2023.

Accruals: No further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material held elsewhere: The CLE's surviving student records, dating from 1989, are at the time of writing in the custody of the General Council of the Bar.  They were transferred from the CLE to the Inns of Court School of Law in 1997.

There is a considerable quantity of information on the CLE in the archives of the four Inns of Court, including correspondence with the CLE, copies of the CLE's reports to the Inns, examination papers and results, and CLE certificates.  The Middle Temple Archives, for example, holds Council of Legal Education accounts, reports, registers and other papers, 1853-1968 and Bar examination papers and results, 1852-2001.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.  It was updated in 2023 by Clare Cowling.  The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Address: The General Secretary
Commonwealth Legal Education Association
c/o Rule of Law Division,
Commonwealth Secretariat,
Marlborough House
Pall Mall
London SW1Y 5HX
UK

Telephone: +44 (0)20 77476500 65006415

Email: https://thecommonwealth.org/contact  

Website:  https://thecommonwealth.org/organisations/commonwealth-legal-education-association-clea  

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: CLEA             
Title: Commonwealth Legal Education Association records             
Dates: 1971-2001            
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 19 archive boxes    
Name of creator: Commonwealth Legal Education Association        
Catalogue last updated: February 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative history: 

Foundation: The Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) was founded during the Fourth Commonwealth Law Conference in New Delhi in 1971.   The idea was initiated by Indian lawyer Dr Laxmi Singhvi, CLEA's first chairman.  The Association's objects were to foster high standards of legal education and research in Commonwealth countries: to build up contacts between interested individuals and organizations, and to disseminate information and literature concerning legal education and research.

The CLEA established its headquarters in the offices of the Legal Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in Marlborough House, London, and with the Legal Director as its Honorary Secretary and Treasurer.  In 1973 it obtained a grant from the Commonwealth Foundation: this funding, plus subscriptions from members, enabled the CLEA to embark on the projects planned on its establishment.  It has received further long term grants from the Commonwealth Foundation to continue its activities.

Aims: The CLEA's structure, objectives and functions are set out in its Constitution, adopted soon after its foundation.  Membership is open to individuals, schools of law and other institutions concerned with legal education and research.  Patrons are appointed from various Commonwealth countries.  The affairs of the Association are managed by an Executive Committee, drawn from the Commonwealth regions, which meets annually: its actions are reviewed at 5 yearly General Meetings, the first of which was held in Edinburgh during the Fifth Commonwealth Law Conference in 1977.  There is an Advisory Panel in the United Kingdom.  The administration of the Association was carried out by a chairman and two secretaries, one in London and one abroad.  In 1990 the office of chairman was replaced by a president and executive chairperson (since renamed vice president).  The President may be elected from any part of the Commonwealth: the Vice President must be established in the UK.  In 1994 a South Asian regional chapter was formed.

Sources: The information for this entry was taken from Commonwealth Legal Education, the newsletter of the CLEA.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: The records comprise secretary's correspondence and papers, 1971-1991: papers of Professor William L Twining as a CLEA officer, 1973-1994: papers of Professor James Read as CLEA Chairman, and other papers, 1974-1995: CLEA Newsletter, 1974-1995: CLEA Directory of Schools of Law in the Commonwealth, 1979-1988: miscellaneous CLEA publications and offprints, 1978-1992.

There are no separately maintained minute books in this collection: minutes, agenda and papers relating to Executive Committee and Advisory Council meetings and meetings of special committees etc will be found in the Secretary's files.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

System of arrangement: Refer to individual series descriptions.

Conditions governing access: Open other than items marked ‘confidential’ or which contain personal data.  Closed items are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: The CLEA.  

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: Files collected in the United Kingdom from the Secretary of the Association were deposited in 1995 and 1996; collections of papers dating from their time as an officer of CLEA received by Professors William Twining and James Read in 1996 and 1997; printed papers, including CLEA directories, were deposited by Dr S B Marsh in 1997.

Immediate source of acquisition: A file detailing the transfer and terms of deposit is held in the Records of Legal Education Project collection at RLEP 08/5.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: The records were appraised, weeded, removed from their original containers and placed in acid-free folders and boxes by the Archivist.

Terms of deposit: None

Accruals: Further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material held elsewhere: Financial records and current files are with the current CLEA officers.  

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: The original catalogue was compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Archivist. It was updated in 2022 and 2024.

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000: National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Sir William Dale: Papers, 1930s-2008

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: DALE 
Title: Papers of Sir William Dale
Dates: 1930s-2003
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 4 archive boxes
Name of creator: Sir William Dale
Catalogue last updated: April 2024 

CONTEXT

Biographical history:  Sir William Leonard Dale (1906–2000), lawyer and civil servant, was born on 17 June 1906 at The Rectory, Preston in Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the elder son and eldest of the three children of the Revd William Dale (1852–1934), Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Rose (1870–1963), daughter of Herbert Leonard, farmer, of Marfleet, Yorkshire.

After Hymers College, Hull, Dale entered into articles with solicitors in the city. After an external London University LLB, he read for the bar, supporting himself on a Gray's Inn scholarship and occasional appointments as a suburban church organist. Call in 1931 was followed by a London pupillage, practice briefly on the north-eastern circuit, and a return to chambers in the Temple. He then joined an English solicitor practising in Jaffa. In 1935 he applied for a legal post in the Colonial Office. On 12 September 1936 he married his second cousin, Emma Patricia Goulton (Biddy) Leonard (b. 1910/11), daughter of Thomas Goulton Leonard, stockbroker, but she was soon diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis and the marriage ended in divorce in 1943. On 30 November 1948 he married Elizabeth Romeyn Elwyn (1922-2002), an American architect, but that marriage, too, was childless, and they were divorced in 1953. She subsequently married the architect Henry Thomas (Jim) Cadbury-Brown.

Dale moved to an administrative position in the wartime Ministry of Supply in 1940, returning to the Colonial Office after VJ-day to the legal complexities of Raja Brooke's cession of Sarawak to the British crown. He was made CMG in 1951, in which year he fielded a request to identify a legal adviser for the new kingdom of Libya by promptly volunteering himself. He returned in 1953, despite the Libyan government's entreaties to stay on as a Supreme Court judge.

A move to the Ministry of Education in 1954 produced a change of work. But Lord Hailsham's arrival as minister in 1957 led to clashes, to which Dale responded by declaring himself semi-redundant, and taking up work for half the day at the Foreign Office. In 1961 he became the legal adviser to the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), and in the following year he was seconded to the central Africa office to help deal with the break-up of the Central African Federation. He was promoted KCMG in 1965, and retired a year later, a period which spanned the CRO's amalgamation with his old department, but not the final merger into a single Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In London on 17 June 1966, his last day in service, he married Gloria Finn (b. 1922), textile designer, of Washington, DC, daughter of Charles Spellman, stockbroker. They had one daughter, Rosemary.

A spell in the law officers' department (1967–68) was followed by a decision to move to Beirut as general counsel to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees. Return home in 1973 opened the most productive and creative phase of Dale's legal life, and a working partnership with Kutlu Fuad, head of the legal division in the Commonwealth Secretariat, which had been founded in Dale's CRO days. First came a study of how to provide competent Commonwealth draftsmen, commuted into a fuller investigation into what legislative style would best meet the needs of newly independent countries, and unlocking Dale's interest in simpler approaches to writing statutes. Then came the call to take over the Government Legal Advisers course (another Dale–CRO creation), through which over the next quarter-century Dale persuaded eminent British figures into nurturing the practical skills of generations of overseas lawyers. The final flowering came in the decision of London University's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) to found a centre for legislative studies in Dale's honour on his ninetieth birthday. The mark of his continuing vigour and determination lay in his becoming its founding Director and establishing a firm base for its activity before stepping down shortly before his death.

Dale published in 1994 an autobiography under the title Time Past, Time Present, which told among other things how his most enduring published work (The Law of the Parish Church, 7th edn, 1998) first came to birth as the winner of a Gray's Inn essay prize in 1931. In 1983 came The Modern Commonwealth, a sound guide to that subject. But he was proudest of all of his Legislative Drafting, a New Approach (1977), which, though less a new recipe than a justified critique of the stuffiness of the English parliamentary drafting style, was well received. 

He died of prostatic cancer on 8 February 2000 at Compton Lodge, 7 Harley Road, Camden, London, and was buried at St Pancras Church, Finchley, London. He was survived by his wife and their daughter.
Publications:

• The Law of the Parish Church (7th edn, 1998). The first version of this was as the winner of a Gray's Inn essay prize in 1931.
• Legislative Drafting, a New Approach (1977).
• The Modern Commonwealth (1983).
• British and French Statutory Drafting. The proceedings of the Franco-British Conference of 7 and 8 April 1986 (1986). Edited by Dale.
• Time Past, Time Present, (1994). Autobiography.

CONTENT

Scope and content:  The collection mainly comprises correspondence, diaries, literary draft works and research materials created by Sir William Dale during the course of his legal career and personal life.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and French.

System of arrangement: There was no discernible original order. 

Conditions governing access: Open 20 years after last date on file other than material containing personal data.  Closed items are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: Vested in the estate of Sir William Dale.  

Physical characteristics: Paper and photographs.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history: Deposited by Lady Gloria Dale in 2009.

Immediate source of acquisition: Lady Gloria Dale, widow of Sir William Dale.  Lady Gloria Dale died on 18th December 2013.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: Appraised by Zoë Karens in June 2022.

Terms of deposit: Deed of Gift/Deposit Agreement dated [date].

Accruals: No further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material held elsewhere: ‘A Commonwealth Law Centre or Institute. A Note by Sir William Dale’, 7 June 1968, The National Archives, Kew (ref: CAB 148/86/14)

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: Original catalogue compiled in 2022 by Zoë Karens in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Catalogue created 2022 and updated in 2024.

Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot: Papers, 1926-1978

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: FOOT     
Title: Papers of Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot
Dates: 1926-1979
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 4 archive boxes
Name of creator: Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot
Catalogue last updated: April 2024

CONTEXT

Biographical history: Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot (1905–1978), politician and lawyer, was born on 24 August 1905 in Plymouth, the eldest child in the family of five sons and two daughters of Isaac Foot (1880-1960), MP and solicitor, and his wife, Eva Mackintosh (1878-1946).  He was educated at Bembridge School, Isle of Wight and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a second in modern history in 1927. He was president of the University Liberal Club in 1927 and of the Oxford Union one year later, before becoming secretary to his father in the House of Commons after the latter's election in 1929. 

He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1930, joining the western circuit.

Foot was brought up in a political household, and three of his brothers, Hugh Mackintosh Foot (Baron Caradon), John and Michael Mackintosh Foot, were to become parliamentarians. Foot contested Tiverton as a Liberal in the 1929 general election before topping the poll at Dundee in 1931. He sat alongside his father until Isaac Foot's defeat in 1935; both were on the side of Herbert Samuel and free trade during the crises which rent the Liberal Party asunder during that parliament. 

In 1933 he married Dorothy Mary Elliston, a Conservative political hostess, daughter of William Rowley Elliston, at one time recorder of Great Yarmouth. There were no children of the marriage.

At the outbreak of war in 1939 Foot was unable to enlist because of a tubercular right arm, and instead joined the Royal Observer Corps. He was recalled by Churchill in 1940 to become parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, a post he held for the duration of the conflict, working under Hugh Dalton. He was engaged in several missions abroad regarding the blockade of the axis powers and was also, in 1945, a member of the British delegation to the San Francisco conference which framed the United Nations charter.

Foot lost his Dundee seat in the Labour landslide of 1945. He prevaricated during repeated attempts by the city's Liberals to re-adopt him as their parliamentary candidate, sensing that the party's position there was irredeemable. Instead, he was adopted for North Cornwall, losing in 1950 and also in 1951. He resigned as a vice-president of the Liberal Party, and from being prospective candidate for North Cornwall, in 1954, before following his friend Lady Megan Lloyd George into the Labour Party in July 1956.

Out of parliament Foot became a bencher of Gray's Inn in 1952 and took silk two years later. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace from 1946 to 1948, was appointed a member of the Committee on Intermediaries in 1949 and chaired the Observer Trust from 1953 to 1955. It was at this time that Foot cultivated his links with legal practice in the Commonwealth, being admitted as an advocate in the Gold Coast, Ceylon, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, India, Bahrain, Malaysia, and Southern Rhodesia. He specialized in constitutional and civil liberties cases, defending Dr Hastings Banda, then leader of the Nyasaland African Congress Party, when he was gaoled in Southern Rhodesia, and Shaikh Muhammad Abdullah, the former chief minister of Kashmir, in the Kashmir conspiracy case. He was expelled from Nigeria in 1962 while challenging the Emergency Powers Act on behalf of the western Nigerian premier, Alhaji D S Adegbenro, and was refused entry the next year when he sought to represent Chief Enaharo on a treason charge after his expulsion from the United Kingdom. Lord Diplock described him as 'an ambassador of common law throughout the Commonwealth' (The Times, 20 June 1978), and he established one of the first multiracial chambers in the Temple.

He was returned for Ipswich at a by-election in 1957 after the death of Richard Stokes, ironically heading off a Liberal revival in the process. He was chairman of the Society of Labour Lawyers from 1960 to 1964 and when Labour returned to power, in 1964, he was appointed solicitor-general, accepting a knighthood at the same time. He resigned his post in 1967.

Foot again turned to his legal career after he left the government. He was Treasurer of the Bar in 1968 and was called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1970; in the previous year he had defended Bernadette Devlin (later McAliskey), MP for Mid-Ulster. He continued to practise extensively throughout the Commonwealth, particularly in Malawi and Hong Kong. In 1974 he was awarded an honorary LLD from Dundee University and two years later published British Political Crises, which offered some autobiographical insights in a narrative which dwelt on the decline of the Liberal Party as a major political force. 

He died on 18 June 1978, during a case in Hong Kong, by choking on a sandwich in his hotel room. His remains were cremated in Hong Kong.

CONTENT

Scope and content: The collection comprises legal files, administrative papers, photographs and newspaper cuttings.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement: There was no discernible original order; the material was found piled haphazardly into four large cartons.

Conditions governing access: Open 20 years after last date on file other than material containing personal data.  Closed items are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: Vested in the Sir Dingle Foot Mackintosh Estate until expiration of copyright in 2048 (70 years after Sir Dingle Foot’s death).

Physical characteristics: Paper and photographs.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: There is no surviving record as to how the material came to be in the Institute Library.  A note in one of the original containers indicates that it comprises papers not required by Churchill College Cambridge, which took custody of some of Sir Dingle’s papers.

Immediate source of acquisition: The material was transferred in March 2001 from the IALS Library to the Archives.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All non-annotated printed material was destroyed on 7 March 2001.  Further material was appraised and destroyed in June 2022.

Terms of deposit: None

Accruals: No further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material held elsewhere: 

• political, legal and personal papers, 1925-1978: Cambridge University Churchill Archives Centre
• correspondence and papers, c.1913-1950: London School of Economics, British Library of Political and Economic Science
• letters to Sir Garnet Wilson, 1940-1943: Dundee City Archives
• correspondence with Sir B H Liddell Hart, 1965-1968: King’s College London, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: Original catalogue compiled in 2022 by Zoë Karens in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: First catalogued 2022; revised 2024.

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Address: PO Box 5709, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Secretary: Trung Quach (from October 2022) 
Email: secretary@iall.org
Website: http://iall.org/

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference: IALL 
Title: International Association of Law Libraries archives
Date(s): 1964-2014
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 36 archive boxes comprising hard copy files, 10 microfiche, 13 audio tapes and 2 artefacts (all equating to 8 shelf metres); 5 digital folders comprising PDF, TIF, JPEG and GIF files (all equating to c.83 MB)
Name of creator: International Association of Law Libraries
Catalogue last updated: July 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative History: The International Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1959 with the purpose of promoting and supporting the work of Law Libraries and related agencies, in order to facilitate research and use of their materials on a multinational and co-operative basis. Its functions and activities have developed to include professional education and development, by means of annual courses, participation in major conferences including IFLA, the publication of the International Journal of Legal Information, and other scholarly publications. It also awards scholarship bursaries for and makes an annual award for the best legal website.

For a detailed description of the history of the IALL, see: Adolf Sprudzs: “Thirty Five Years of International Co-operation” (The Law Librarian, Vol 26 no 2 June 1995.)  A list of Officers of the IALL, past and present, may also be found on the Association’s website here: https://iall.org/about-iall-2/officers-2/496-2/.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: Records of the International Association of Law Libraries, comprising constitutional documents, annual general meetings, annual reports, officers’ files, course material, conference files and publications, printed matter from training events and the brass logo stamp.    

System of arrangement: The nature of IALL – an international organisation based on a three-year term of office for its officials – meant that there was no corporate record keeping system. Rather, each member of the board, and indeed each active member of the organisation, would maintain their own files which often form a continuous record of their involvement with the Association rather than according to the roles they undertook. The bulk of the archive, therefore, comprises such files. 

Record types noted within named individual’s files include constitutional documents; AGM papers; Board Meeting Minutes and related papers; financial records; training event preparation and administration; and general correspondence.  As far as possible, specific record types within files have been noted in the file level description.  However, researchers interested in a particular topic or period would be advised to look at all the relevant individuals’ files.

ACCESS AND USE 

Language/scripts of material: English, German and Swedish.

System of arrangement: Arranged by function and subject matter as given in Scope and Content.  As noted above, the IALL did not have a central record keeping system and much of this archive comprises individual member’s files. This arrangement has been retained and the files catalogued in series according to the individual rather than the role.

Conditions governing access: Printed and published material open. Remaining records open 20 years after last date on file unless otherwise specified (some records may be closed for reasons of confidentiality or to protect personal privacy; where this is the case the access conditions are specified in the individual series description).  Closed items are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: IALL.  

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: The records were transferred directly to IALS by officers of the IALL.   The nature of the accruals to this collection indicates that the bulk of these records were retained by the member’s employing institution before being passed directly to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.  

Immediate source of acquisition: IALL officers.

Terms of deposit: TBC. 

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: In 2006 the records were appraised and listed by the IALS Archivist; during this exercise ephemera and duplicate material were destroyed by agreement with the Librarian as current President of IALL. Additional material was received and appraised in 2007–2008. A Records Retention policy has been drafted for IALL.  

Accruals: Other accruals are expected in order to fill gaps within the existing series and to continue the series.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist’s note: Compiled by Elizabeth Dawson and Melanie Peart.  The catalogue was updated by Clare Cowling in 2022 and 2024.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July 2006; October 2008; July 2022; July 2024.

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference: IALS
Title: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Institutional Archives
Dates: 1934-2023
Level: collection (fonds)
Extent and Medium: 146 folders; 158 volumes; 257 booklets; 27 leaflets; 289 plans; 4 framed portraits; 2 albums; 1 box loose photographs; 3 free standing artefacts; 4 videos; 1 board (all contained in 68 archive boxes and 5 plan drawers equating to c.40 shelf metres); 55 PDF files; 12 TIF files; 7 JPG files; 1 MP 3 file; 1 WAV file (digital records equating to c.604 MB)
Name of Creator: IALS
Catalogue last updated: August 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative History: In 1932 a Legal Education Committee under the Chairmanship of Lord Atkin was set up to consider the organisation of legal education in England and to make recommendations as to further provision for advanced research in legal studies.  The Committee’s report in 1934 included a recommendation that an Institute of Advanced Legal Studies be established in London.  In 1938 another Committee, chaired by Lord Macmillan, was set up to find a practical means of effecting this recommendation.  The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was established in 1946 as part of the University of London.  Its aims were "the prosecution and promotion of legal research and the training of graduate students in its principles and methods" (39th Annual Report, 1985/86).  Since its inception the scope of the Institute has expanded considerably, with sponsorship of and support for many research projects and the provision of facilities for other research bodies and for conferences, seminars and workshops.  The Library provides facilities for academic and research staff and postgraduate research students from universities all over the world, and is one of the world's largest legal research libraries. 

In 1994 IALS became a major component of the School of Advanced Study. The School was established in September 1994.  Its fore runner was the University of London Institutes for Advanced Study.  The School includes the Institutes of Advanced Legal Studies, Classical Studies, Commonwealth Studies, Germanic Studies, Historical Research, Latin American Studies, Romance Studies, United States Studies and the Warburg Institute.  The School gives the Institutes a collective voice in the governance of the University of London, fosters the development of new activities and collective enterprises among Institutes and generally promotes efficiency and effectiveness in the Institutes' missions of supporting and developing research in the humanities and social sciences, nationally and internationally.

For a detailed description of the establishment and development of the Institute see the IALS First Prospectus, 1948, and Willi Steiner (former IALS Librarian), "The Establishment of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London", IALS Bulletin no. 17, Apr 1994, pp. 6-20.  The latter includes extensive references to published works and the minutes of the University of London Senate.  A commemorative volume for the 50th anniversary of the Institute is currently in preparation.

CONTENT

Scope and content: The records below comprise the catalogued portion of the surviving institutional archives of the IALS.  There is a considerable quantity of records, in both hard copy and digital formats, awaiting cataloguing.

Records of Legal Education Archives: The Records of Legal Education Archives at IALS, a collection of papers of individuals and organisations prominent in the field, was created as part of the Records of Legal Education project and entries were prepared by the Project Co-ordinator.  For a detailed catalogue see the 1998 Guide to the Records of Legal Education Archives at IALS.  In 2019 the Records of Legal Education Archives was subsumed into the IALS Archives and its collections will be found there.  

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

System of arrangement: Each class of records is arranged differently; some are chronological, some alphabetical and others have no discernable system of arrangement.

Conditions governing access: Published material open; other items closed for 20 years after last date on file. Some items may be subject to extended closure under Data Protection legislation.  Closed files are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: IALS unless otherwise stated in the item description.    

Physical characteristics: The collection comprises both paper and digital files, plus a number of plans, photographs and framed portraits.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: A brief overall survey of the Institute's records was undertaken in 1996 as part of the Records of Legal Education Project, a research study conducted with the support of the Institute.  A further small-scale project to identify specific archival records of relevance to the compilation of the 50th anniversary history of the Institute was undertaken in 1997. These records were separated from their original context and placed in the Archives for safe keeping. The papers listed below have been identified using the findings of both surveys, but at present consist only of those records identified in the smaller survey and some isolated records deposited in the Archives at various times following the second survey.  

It proved impossible, primarily due to loss of original file covers and original order, to reorganise these files with a complete degree of certainty in their original order, though every attempt has been made to do so.  It is hoped that some at least will be reunited with the remaining files in their original series at a later date.  

Immediate source of acquisition: Officers of the Institute.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: In 2001/02 the above collections were appraised by the Archivist, Clare Cowling.  A considerable amount of material of no value was destroyed and the remainder catalogued.  Subsequent accessions of material were added to the collection as part of a cataloguing backlog project in 2010 and further material was later deposited on an ad hoc basis.   In 2019/20 the Archivist identified c. 127 linear metres of IALS material, much of it unlisted, in the Archives; though considerable cataloguing was undertaken from 2022-2024 some material still awaits appraisal and cataloguing when resources permit.

Accruals: Further accruals are expected.

TITLE NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: the original catalogue was compiled in 2001 by Clare Cowling in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.  Further cataloguing was undertaken in 2010.  The catalogue has continued to be updated from 2022-2024 by Clare Cowling.

International Law Association Archive (PDF handlist)

Address: International Law Association (HQ); Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
Secretary: Claire Martin
Telephone: +44 (020) 7323 2978
Telephone: +44 (020) 7323 3580
Email: info@ila-hq.org
Web:  http://www.ila-hq.org
Follow the ILA on Twitter: @ILA_official
Registered Charity No. 249637

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference: ILA
Title: International Law Association Archives
Dates: 1866-2019
Level: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium:179 archive boxes, 8 unboxed volumes, 1 outsize folder (32 shelf metres); 1 PDF file (983 kb)
Name of Creator: International Law Association
Catalogue last updated: February 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative History: The International Law Association (ILA) was founded in Brussels in 1873 as an association 'to consist of Jurists, Economists, Legislators, Politicians and others taking an interest in the question of the reform and Codification of Public and Private International Law, the Settlement of Disputes by Arbitration, and the assimilation of the laws, practice and procedure of the Nations in reference to such laws' (afternoon sitting of the first conference of members, 19 November 1873: reference ILA/1/1). It was initially called the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations, changing its title to the International Law Association in the early 20th century. 

The Association was to consist of a Council of officers comprising a President, vice presidents, secretaries and other members of the Conference (called the Bureau), plus a series of local, departmental or provincial committees who were to report to the President. These committees have since expanded into International Committees. The ILA's activities are now organised by an Executive Council, assisted by the Headquarters Secretariat in London. Membership of the Association, at present about 4,200, is spread among branches throughout the world and ranges from lawyers in private practice, academia, industrial and financial spheres, and representatives of bodies such as shipping and arbitration organisations and chambers of commerce. The ILA has consultative status, as an international non-governmental organisation, with a number of the United Nations specialised agencies. 

The ILA appointed its first executive secretary in about the early 1950s. A 1982 memorandum from the Executive Council chairman, Lord Wilberforce clearly distinguished this position from that of the honorary secretary general: the executive secretary has executive responsibility for the administration of ILA headquarters; the honorary secretary general has no executive responsibility for the running of the office but is available for consultation and advice. ILA executive secretaries have included the following persons: G Worsley (c.1960s), John Churchill (1979-1985), R C H Briggs (1985), Ferdie L de May and Barbara Osirio (c.1990s), and Juliet Fussell (from 2000) and Claire Martin (current secretary). 

The ILA's objectives are pursued primarily through the work of its International Committees and the focal point of its activities is the series of Biennial Conferences. These conferences, of which over 70 have so far been held in different locations throughout the world, provide a forum for the comprehensive discussion and endorsement of the work of the committees.

CONTENT

Scope and Content: The records as transferred comprise an almost complete archive of the ILA from its inception until 2019 and include membership books, Constitution and bye-laws, minutes of conferences, Council and various committees, correspondence, conference, committee and branch files, financial records, press cuttings, newsletters, miscellaneous printed material and photographs, 1873-1990.

Language of Scripts: English, French, German 

System of Arrangement: Each class of records is arranged differently; some are chronological, some alphabetical and others have no discernable system of arrangement.

Physical characteristics: The collection comprises papers, some in files, plus a number of photographs and framed portraits.

ACCESS AND USE

Conditions governing access: Printed and published material open.  Remaining records open 30 years after last date on file unless otherwise specified (some records may be CLOSED for a further period for reasons of confidentiality or to protect personal privacy; where this is the case the access conditions are specified in the individual series description).  Requests for accelerated access to records by bona fide researchers should be made to the ILA Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: Vested in the ILA.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 1999 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.  It was updated in 2020 by Zoe Karens; the project was funded by the ILA. Some more additions were made in 2021 and 2023 by Clare Cowling.

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Reference: LSOC
Title: The Law Society: Examination Records
Date: 1836 - 1989
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 496 volumes; 4 archive boxes; 51 loose leaf binders; 3 PDF files
Name of creator: The Law Society
Catalogue last updated: February 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative history: 

The Law Society was founded in London in 1825 as the Society of Attorneys, Solicitors, Proctors and others not being barristers, having been previously established in 1823 as The London Law Institution. It acquired its first Royal Charter in 1831 and a further charter in 1845 established it as an independent professional organisation. The Society has delivered legal education in England since 1835 and has set examinations since 1836. It also has a representational role for the profession.  Its regulatory functions were passed to the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority in January 2007.

For a detailed description of the history of the Law Society, see:  Kirk, Harry, Portrait of a profession: a history of the solicitors' profession 1100 to the present day. Oyez, 1976 and Sugarman, David, A Brief History of the Law Society, Law Society, 1994.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract: The collection comprises candidate lists and examination results for England, 1836–1984; examination papers, 1932, 1960 and 1980–1982; correspondence, examination results and papers, Colonial and Commonwealth, 1887–1984.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement: Arranged by examination where stated, in chronological order. There are separate series of candidate lists and examination results, but there is some duplication of information, as some early volumes of candidate lists also including examination results, as noted in individual series descriptions.

Conditions governing access: Printed and published material open. Candidate information and examination results are closed for 75 years in accordance with the Data Protection Act for reasons of confidentiality and to protect personal privacy; access conditions are specified in the individual series descriptions.  Closed items are designated in red

Copyright/conditions governing reproduction: Copyright in the original material has been vested in the University of London.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Finding aids: Records up to 1946 have been digitised by Ancestry and access to the digitised versions, including downloading digital copies for private research, is subject to Ancestry’s terms and conditions.  To find the examination record of any individual in the collection search here: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62335/ 

Bona fide academic researchers registered with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies may access the digitised collection in full on site, using a URL which will be provided by the IALS on request.  By using this service on site researchers are agreeing to both our and Ancestry’s terms and conditions.

An index to candidates is also at the front of each hard copy volume or folder of the candidates’ examination papers.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: The collection consists of all the surviving material relating to examinations, and has been preserved in its entirety.

Archival history: The records were transferred from The Law Society to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 2007.

Immediate source of acquisition: The Law Society Library.

Terms of deposit: Deed of Gift dated 2007.

Accruals: Further accruals are not expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

other archive material relating to the Law Society is held at the Law Society Library.  For details see link https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or-visit-us/law-society-library/library-catalogue-and-collections

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note : Original catalogue compiled in 2008 by Elizabeth J Dawson, Archivist.   The catalogue was updated in 2022-2024 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.

Rules or conventions : Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: MARSH         
Title: Dr S B (Stan) Marsh, Law Teacher: Papers 
Dates: 1968-1995
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 8 archive boxes (2 shelf metres)
Name of creator: Dr S B (Stan) Marsh        
Catalogue last updated: January 2022    

CONTEXT

Biographical history: Dr S B (Stan) Marsh (1926-1998) was a barrister and law teacher.  After three and a half years' war service in the Royal Navy he graduated B.Com from the University of London in 1949 and Dip.Ed. from Leicester University in 1950; he then taught at Leicester College of Technology from 1950-1956.  During this time he obtained his LL.B from the University of London, and was called to the Bar of Gray's Inn in 1958. He was Head of the Commerce Department at Peterborough Technical College from 1956-1958 and Head of the Department of Business and Secretarial Studies at Manchester College of Commerce in 1958.  From the latter Department grew the Department of Law, subsequently incorporated into Manchester Polytechnic.
Dr Marsh's first foray into research in legal education was his thesis for a higher degree, for which he was awarded a Ph.D at Leicester University in 1956.  This research was later continued in association with Professor John Wilson of Southampton University and then with Dr Julia Bailey, then lecturing at Manchester.
Dr Marsh served as a member of the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Legal Education (the Ormrod Committee) and the Advisory Committee on Legal Education set up by the Inns of Court and the Law Society.  He was the founding Chairman of the Association of Law Teachers (ALT) from 1965-1967 and President from 1989-1996.  
Publications: Dr Marsh produced a history of the first 25 years of the ALT in 1990, The Association of Law Teachers; the First 25 Years, ALT, 1990.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: the papers of Dr Stan B Marsh, law teacher, consist of Ormrod Committee agenda, minutes and papers, 1968-1971; Advisory Committee on Legal Education, agenda, minutes and papers, 1980-1988; manuscript material, 1985; pamphlets and offprints relating to legal education, 1975-1995.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 
Conditions governing access: all items are now open 
Copyright/conditions governing reproduction: refer to individual item descriptions.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: in 1997 Dr Marsh presented several series of records of interest to legal education to the Records of Legal Education Archives (now subsumed into the IALS Archives).  The material included some manuscript material, pamphlets and offprints held by him, and also minutes and papers of his time as a member of the Ormrod Committee on Legal Education and the Advisory Committee on Legal Education.  The latter two series of records had been temporarily deposited in the School of International Studies and Law at Coventry University by Dr Julia Bailey, who had referred to them in the preparation of her Ph.D thesis (see MARSH 03/01).  They were passed to the Archives by agreement between Dr Marsh, Dr Bailey and the Head of the School of Law at Coventry University.  They will be found at MARSH 01-02.
The bulk of the printed papers donated by Dr Marsh have been placed in the appropriate series of agency archives also held in the IALS Archives: see entries for the Association of Law Teachers (ALT), Council of Legal Education (CLE), Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) and Society of Legal scholars (SLS).  The remainder will be found at MARSH 04.  
Immediate source of acquisition: a file detailing the transfer and terms of deposit is held in the Records of Legal Education Project collection at RLEP 08/09.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: the records were appraised, weeded and listed by the Records of Legal Education Archivist in 1997.
Terms of deposit: deposited by Deed of Gift by the Executor of Dr Marsh’s estate in 1998.
Accruals: no further accruals are expected.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 
Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.  It was updated in 2023 by Clare Cowling.
The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
 

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: MOYS         
Title: Elizabeth (Betty) Moys (1928-2002): Publications and Files relating to Law Librarianship, 
Dates:     1960-2001    
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 7 archive boxes (1.5 shelf metres)
Name of creator: Elizabeth Moys        
Catalogue last updated: June 2024    

CONTEXT

Biographical History: 

Dates: 1928-2002

Education and Career:

1946-1949: English, BA Hons., Queen Mary College, London
1949-1950: Kent County Library Service
1950-1951: North-Western Polytechnic School of Librarianship
1951-1952: Reference Librarian, Royal Institute of International Affairs
1952-1959: Assistant Librarian, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
1959-1963: University of Ghana
1963-1965: Librarian, University of Lagos 
1965-1967: Reading Room Superintendent, University of Glasgow Library
1968-1989: Librarian, Goldsmith’s College, University of London
1985: joined the Society of Indexers and qualified as a registered indexer

Betty Moys (1928-2002) is known for the Moys Classification Scheme for Legal Material.  In 1961, whilst at the University of Ghana, Moys produced a classification scheme (Classification Class K, Law), “based on one used by a College Library in London”.  Three years later, whilst at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, Africa, she developed A Classification Scheme for Law Books which she submitted in 1965 for Fellowship of the Library Association.  This was in turn published by Butterworth’s in 1968.  The second edition was published in 1982 with the new title Moys Classification Scheme for Law Books; the 3rd and 4th editions, published in 1992 and 2001 respectively, were titled Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials.  The classification scheme was adopted by law libraries in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK.  The Moys user group was set up in 1995 and both the 3rd and the 4th editions were produced in conjunction with an Editorial Board.  In her will, Moys bequeathed the copyright and therefore the royalties from the Moys Classification Scheme to the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) so that the work may be continued.  

Professional Associations 

International Association of Law Libraries (IALL):  Moys was a member of the Board of Directors, 1965-1968; she edited the European Law Libraries Guide, commissioned by Council of Europe; and reviewed books for the IALL Bulletin.

British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL): Moys was a founding member of the Association and established and edited the Association’s journal, The Law Librarian, between 1970 and 1977.  She was Chair of the Publications Committee until 1980; oversaw production and publication of the Manual of Law Librarianship in 1976 and was editor of the 2nd edition in 1982.  She was Vice-President between 1987 and 1990, and President from 1990 to 1993.   

Society of Indexers:  She was a member of the Society’s Council from 1991; Treasurer 1992-1999; member of the Publications Committee from 1992; and was Vice President at the time of her death.  She was joint author of Indexing Legal Materials, 1993.

Awards

• 1991: awarded the Wheatley Medal by the Society of Indexers for her index to British tax encyclopedia. 
• 1998: joint recipient of BIALL’s Wallace Breem Award: for editing Information Sources in Law, 2nd ed, 1997.  
• 1999: awarded the MBE in recognition of her contribution to law indexing and classification.  

Sources:  British Association of Law Librarians Collection BIALL/23/5; “History of a Classification Scheme”, The Law Librarian vol 23, no 2, June 1992, pp96-98; “In Memoriam”, Legal Information Management Vol 2, no 1, Spring 2002, pp4-7.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: The series comprises Moys’ publications relating to law librarianship, working files relating to the writing and publication of the Moys Classification Scheme and awards received in her lifetime.  

System of arrangement: There was no discernible original order; a basic structure was imposed during cataloguing.  

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

Conditions governing access: All items are open

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: Copyright in the 4 editions of the Moys Classification Scheme was vested in BIALL under the terms of Moys’ will.   Copyright in the remainder is vested in the Moys estate.  

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: These records were originally transferred to BIALL by the Executors of Elizabeth Moys’ estate.  Correspondence indicates that the intention was to add this material to the core BIALL collection.  This, however, was never carried out and a review of the files after they had been deposited at IALS revealed that these were not specifically connected to BIALL.  Rather, this material comprises copies of Elizabeth Moys’ publications and related working files, which were largely created independently of BIALL.  These records have, therefore, been catalogued as a separate collection.
Immediate source of acquisition: in 2010 the collection was deposited at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the same time as BIALL’s organisational records.  Her awards and medals were deposited in the Archives by the IALS Librarian in 2022.

Terms of deposit: Covered by the original Deposit Agreement with BIALL dated 6 May 2010.
Accruals: no further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related Material: 

• The records of BIALL and IALL are held by the Institute of Advance Legal Studies Archives.  See https://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/archives/ials-archives-collections
• Some papers of Betty Moys are held in the IALS Institutional Archives as follows: as IALS Assistant Librarian 1954-1959 plus her personnel file (ref IALS/20/3); correspondence with the IALS Secretary/Librarian 1962-1968 (ref IALS/3/6).  

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 2010 by Melanie Peart, Archivist, in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.  It was further modified in 2011.  It was updated in 2024 by Clare Cowling. 

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: READ             
Title: Professor James S Read, Law Teacher: Papers relating to Legal Education    
Dates: 1972-1975            
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 1 archive box
Name of creator: Professor James S Read        
Catalogue last updated: January 2023    

CONTEXT

Biographical history: James Read graduated in Law from the University of London in 1953 and qualified as a barrister in 1954.  He has been Assistant Lecturer in law at UCL (1956-1958), Lecturer in African Law, SOAS (1958-1965), Senior Lecturer in Law, the University College, Dar-es-Salaam (1963-1966), Reader in African Law, SOAS (1964-1975) and Professor of Comparative Public Law with special reference to Africa at SOAS from 1974.  

CONTENT

Scope and content: the papers of Professor James S Read comprise his annotated copies of agenda, minutes, papers, reports and related correspondence of the Advisory Committee on Legal Education, 1972-1976.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 
System of arrangement: arranged chronologically by date.
Conditions governing access: open.  Formerly closed for 30 years in accordance with the Regulations of the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society.
Conditions governing reproduction: copies of material may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 
Copyright: vested in the General Council of the Bar.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history: Professor Read was Joint Honorary Secretary of the UKNCCL (1969-1973), Honorary Secretary of the SPTL (1972-1975) and Chairman of the CLEA (1977-1983); his official papers relating to these activities were deposited by Professor Read in the Records of Legal Education Archives (now subsumed into the IALS Archives) in 1997, along with some other papers and publications. He has also deposited papers in the University of London Archives.
Immediate source of acquisition: a file detailing the transfer and terms of deposit is held in the Records of Legal Education Project collection at RLEP 8/10.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: the records were appraised, weeded and arranged in 1997 by the Records of Legal Education Archivist as follows:

• The papers in the Read collection, READ 1, comprise Professor Read's papers as a member of the Advisory Committee on Legal Education (see p.4 below).
• The remaining papers deposited by Professor Read were placed in the archive of the appropriate organisation and will be found in the relevant series lists as follows:-

Terms of deposit: no formal agreement.
Accruals: no further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: Professor Read also donated a quantity of copies of ALT, CLEA and SPTL publications, which have been added to existing holdings in the IALS Archives.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: 
Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.  It was updated in 2023.
The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

The Records of Legal Education Archives (RLEA) was established at IALS in 1998. It was created as an outcome of the Records of Legal Education Project, one of the aims of which was to collect, maintain and make available for research, records of legal education where the creating/controlling agency was unable to make any alternative archival provision. The records of the project itself are held in the IALS Archives (ref: RLEP). The original Guide to the Records of Legal Education Archives, compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, the Project co-ordinator, is available here. The RLEA and its collections (listed below) have since been subsumed into the IALS Archives.

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: RLEP         
Title: Records of Legal Education Project Archives
Dates: 1994-1998            
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 9 archive boxes (2 linear metres)
Name of creator: Records of Legal Education Project    co-ordinator    
Catalogue last updated: January 2023    

CONTEXT

Administrative History: the Records of Legal Education Project (RLEP), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, ran from October 1994 - May 1998.  It was based at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its brief was to:

• investigate records of legal education housed in selected institutions, primarily in the Greater London area, and report on their availability, accessibility and significance;
• create a Guide to Records of Legal Education and Law Schools to enable researchers to trace the location of documents of relevance;
• publish and disseminate its findings to assist researchers in law, the humanities and the social sciences;
• exceptionally, collect, maintain and make available for research, records of legal education where the creating/controlling agency was unable to make any alternative archival provision.  This material was placed in a Records of Legal Education Archives (RLEA) located in the IALS Library.  The RLEA has since been subsumed into the IALS Archives.

Research was concentrated on institutions and records in the Greater London area, since this was a) where the highest proportion of legal education material was to be found; b) where the project was physically located.  The project's resources were too limited to go further afield.
The project was co-ordinated by Clare Cowling, an Archivist employed on a part-time basis, under the direction of an Advisory Committee comprising Jules Winterton, the IALS Librarian, Avrom Sherr, Woolf Professor of Legal Education at IALS, David Sugarman, Professor of Law at the University of Lancaster and William Twining, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London until 1998. The Project was based in the IALS Library and was granted use of its facilities. 

CONTENT

Scope and content: the archive of the Records of Legal Education Project comprises the entire administrative and research archive of the co-ordinator, and consists of:

• administrative records, 1994-1998
• correspondence files, 1994-1998
• progress reports, 1994-1998
• background papers on legal education, 1994-1998
• papers relating to the Guide to Records of Legal Education and Law Schools, 1994-1998
• records relating to the publicising of the Project and its findings, 1994-1998
• Records of Legal Education Archives, policy files, 1994-1998
• Records of Legal Education Archives, individual record collection files, 1994-1998

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 
System of arrangement: refer to individual series descriptions
Conditions governing access: open
Conditions governing reproduction: copies of material may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 
Copyright: vested in the University of London.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history: the records were produced during the course of the project and were transferred to the RLEA by the project archivist upon the project's completion in 1998.
Immediate source of acquisition: a file detailing the transfer and terms of deposit is held in the Records of Legal Education Project collection at RLEP 08/11.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: the records were appraised, weeded and listed by the RLEA Archivist in 1998.
Terms of deposit: none
Accruals: no further accruals are expected.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: 
Rules or conventions: the original catalogue was compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Records of Legal Education Archivist.  It was updated in 2023 by Clare Cowling.
The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: SCLE             
Title: Standing Conference on Legal Education: Minute Book             
Dates: 1991-1994            
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 1 volume
Name of creator: Standing Conference on Legal Education        
Catalogue last updated: January 2023     

CONTEXT

Administrative history: following the disappearance of the old non-statutory Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee, there was no longer any forum in which those responsible for the provision of legal education could discuss matters of common concern; nor was there any regular machinery for communication between the world of legal education and the new, statutory Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC).  The then ACLEC Chairman, Lord Griffiths, therefore suggested the creation of a new forum in the shape of a Standing Conference on Legal Education (SCLE) and offered his own services as Chairman; meetings were to be held at ACLEC.  Financial support came from the Law Society and the Bar; an elected secretary was to carry out administrative work.
The Conference met six monthly; representatives included both the practising professions and academic lawyers.  It consisted of 22 members nominated by the legal profession and by the main providers of legal education; these included the Bar, the Law Society, the Inns of Court School of Law, the Inns of Court and Bar Educational Trust, the College of Law, the Association of Law Teachers, the Society of Public Teachers of Law (now the Society of Law Teachers), the Heads of University Law Schools, the Legal Education and Training Group, the Institute of Legal Executives, ACLEC and the Lord Chancellor's Department.  The Conference offered advice and assistance to ACLEC; no formal links between the two were created as the attendance of meetings by the ACLEC Chairman and Secretary rendered this unnecessary.
Following the abolition of ACLEC, the Standing Conference reverted to being under the control of the Lord Chancellor's Dept.  

CONTENT

Scope and content: the item comprises Professor Peter Birks’ collection of minutes of the Standing Conference from 1991-1994. Professor Birks (1941-2004) was the Secretary of the SCLE during this period.  The minutes, together with some correspondence, have been pasted into the volume in chronological order.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 
System of arrangement: One volume; contents arranged chronologically.
Conditions governing access: access open by agreement with The Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (letter to the IALS Archivist, 2 September 1996 - IALS Archives ref: RLEP 8/13).
Conditions governing reproduction: copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 
Copyright: Crown Copyright  
Physical characteristics: comprises a volume with material pasted into it.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history: the minute book was deposited in the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1997 by Professor Peter Birks, formerly the Secretary to the Conference.  
Immediate source of acquisition: see RLEP 08/13 for correspondence with Professor Birks and ACLEC.
Terms of deposit: no formal agreement.
Accruals: no further accruals are expected.
Related material held elsewhere: Professor Stephen Bailey’s papers from 1994-1998 as the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools’ (CHULS) representative on the SCLE are at in the IALS Archives’ CHULS collection ref: CHULS 07/04.  The papers include some minutes and papers of the Committee.
 

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Address:

Professor John Harrington (SLSA Chair)
SLSA UK
Cardiff University
Sbarc Spark
Maindy Road
CARDIFF CF24 4HQ

Email enquiries:  admin@slsa.ac.uk 
Website:  https://www.slsa.ac.uk/

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: SLSA  
Title: Socio-Legal Studies Association Archives
Dates: 1972-2017
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 7 archive boxes (1.5 linear metres)
Name of creator: Socio-Legal Studies Association
Catalogue last updated: August 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative history: according to a statement of ethical practice in the Socio-Legal Studies Association's 1995 Directory of Members, socio-legal studies may be defined as embracing "disciplines and subjects concerned with the social effects of the law, legal processes, institutions and services".  SLSA was established to promote and support the work of socio-legal scholars, to facilitate the regular exchange of ideas and information and to represent the socio-legal research interest in discussions with other bodies.

SLSA grew out of an informal group of academics who met at annual conferences to discuss matters of interest.  In 1988 it was decided that the group needed a higher profile, and a conference was arranged in Oxford which was attended by over 100 people.  The success of the conference permitted another to be held in Edinburgh in 1989, at which the proposal was made to create a formal Association.  A Steering Committee was set up to formally establish the SLSA at the 1990 conference in Bristol, using some funds from various law faculties and from the Nuffield Foundation.  A newsletter was first published in March 1989; in 1990 an editor was appointed to produce a regular newsletter.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: The collection comprises minutes and management papers, conference literature and publications.

System of arrangement: The records were not kept in any formal order, and the series of papers frequently overlap in content and subject matter.  Minutes of AGMs and conference papers have sometimes been integrated with one or other of the above groups of records and sometimes filed separately.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

Conditions governing access: Open after 20 years other than SLSA 17/1 which contains personal data and is closed for 75 years.

Copyright/conditions governing reproduction: Vested in the IALS, other than printed/published material. Copyright declaration form to be completed. Digital photography copyright declaration form to be completed.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: In 1997 an agreement was made between the Records of Legal Education Archivist and the Chairman of the SLSA to make regular deposits of SLSA archive material.  A file detailing the arrangement is in the Records of Legal Education Project archives at RLEP 8/14.  

Immediate source of acquisition: The first tranche of material was the correspondence and papers of founder member and Chairman (1993-1996), Professor Martin Partington: these were deposited by him with the Records of Legal Education Archives (now subsumed into the IALS Archives) in 1997.  Printed papers relating to the 1997 Conference, plus some copies of the Newsletter and Directory of Members, were passed to the Archives in 1997 by the current editor of the Newsletter.  Material was subsequently deposited by Nick Wikeley, (Treasurer 1999-2005) and Rosemary Hunter (Chair 2011-2017).

Terms of deposit: By Deed of Gift in 1997.  For details see the Records of Legal Education Project file in the IALS Archives (ref: RLEP/8/14).

Accruals: Further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related Material: SLSA publications are available in the IALS Library and in other law libraries.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: Original catalogue compiled in 1997 by Clare Cowling, Archivist.  Subsequent accruals were added to the catalogue by Clare Cowling in December 2020.  The catalogue was further updated in 2024.

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
 

Society of Legal Scholars (formerly Society of Public Teachers of Law)

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Address: PO Box 3017, Bristol, BS6 9HJ, United Kingdom
Secretary: Rosa Bladon
Telephone: 07398 032393 (direct line, with voice mail)
Fax: n/a
Email: admin@legalscholars.ac.uk
Website: www.legalscholars.ac.uk

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: SPTL/SLS  
Title: The Society of Legal Scholars collection
Dates: 1909-2020
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 83 archive boxes; 39 volumes and 16 PDF files (16 shelf metres; 62.5 MB)
Name of creator: The Society of Legal Scholars
Catalogue last updated: February 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative history: The Society of Public Teachers of Law (SPTL) was founded in 1909 by Dr Edward Jenks, the then Principal and Director of Studies of the Law Society. 

Aims: Rule 2 of the Society states that "The objects of the society shall be the furtherance of the cause of legal education in England and Wales, and of the work and interests of public teachers of law therein by holding discussions and enquiries, by publishing documents, and by taking other steps as may from time to time be deemed desirable" (see SPTL 6: List of Members and Rules 1910).

The Society was to consist of a) ordinary members (any public teacher of law in England and Wales) and b) honorary members (any past teacher of law, overseas teacher of law or person who has "conferred important benefits on the Society or on legal education") (Ibid. Rule 6, p.11).

The Society's affairs were to be managed by a General Committee, whose officers were to consist of a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Honorary Secretary. Other Committee members were to comprise one member for each university conferring degrees in law, and one member for each body conferring professional qualifications in law. Thus all branches of legal education would be represented.
Since its inception, the SPTL has acted to improve the quality of legal education and research through publishing reports, setting up working parties, putting forward submissions, holding conferences and producing journals and newsletters on matters relevant to legal education. Its representation on the different law teaching bodies in England and Wales has meant that it has operated with great effectiveness as a pressure group for change.

In 2002 the Society of Public Teachers of Law was renamed the Society of Legal Scholars.

Sources/Publications: Further information about the Society can be found in Fiona Cownie and Raymond Cocks. “A Great and Noble Occupation!”: The History of the Society of Legal Scholars. Hart Publishing, 2009 (available in the IALS Library and as SPTL 25/10).

CONTENT 

Scope and content: the archive of the Society of Public Teachers of Law comprises:

• Minute books and correspondence of the Council, General Committee, sub-committees and special committees
• General correspondence and subject files
• Papers of annual conferences and meetings and annotated papers presented at SPTL meetings
• Registers, directories and lists of members and rules
• Financial records
• Printed material including the Journal of the SPTL/Legal Studies and SPTL Reporter
• Correspondence and papers of individual officers of the Society.
• Records of officers of the Society.
• Conference and seminar records

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

System of arrangement: the archivist appointed to sort and list the archives of the SPTL in 1995 found that the material had been transferred ad hoc, with no covering lists identifying individual documents or classes of records. The piecemeal weeding, destruction and reclassification which had been carried out from time to time, either before or after transfer, made it impossible to establish genuinely representative and coherent record classes without imposing yet another arrangement of records and physically removing items from the series into which they had been placed. As a result the records have been left in their existing arrangement but given new archival series reference numbers, and detailed cross references have been made to records in different series covering the same functions. The original classification numbers allocated during the earlier listing attempts described above have been retained alongside the new series numbers and noted in bold type.

In 2009-2010 and in 2014 second and third stages of work were undertaken to catalogue accruals to the collection. Where appropriate, material was added to existing series. However, as noted above, the arrangement of the existing catalogue reflected the specific circumstances and records arrangement found in 1995. Therefore a number of new series were created to accommodate the new material.

Conditions governing access: Material not already in the public domain will be made available for public access after 20 years, other than records containing personal data which are closed for 75 years.  Closed items are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: copies may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 

Copyright: Vested in the Society of Legal Scholars, except where held by third parties.

Physical characteristics: Mostly paper-based, in both loose and bound volume format.  Some material has been transferred in PDF format.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: Prior to 1997, SPTL officers had employed no consistent or coherent records management policies; each officer presumably made his own decisions to dispose of records according to his own interests. A considerable quantity of early records dating from the Society's inception has been preserved, as has very recent material, but there are large gaps in holdings, particularly for the 1950s, plus evidence of ad hoc destruction, weeding and later re-arrangement of material into subject groups, destroying any original order. At some stage SPTL records were transferred to IALS, but the circumstances of the transfer or transfers are unknown. From the late 1980s a more coherent, if less prolific, policy of transferring SPTL publications was instituted, and in the 1990s regular transfers of minutes, programmes and printed papers began.

More formal filing procedures were implemented after the post of Administrative Secretary was created in 1997 and transfers of records to the archive held by IALS became more systematic.

Immediate source of acquisition: More recent transfers of SPTL material have included regular transfers of minutes and related papers, copies of SPTL publications, and papers donated by Professors William Twining, James Read, Fiona Cownie and John Bell relating to their time as officers of the Society. Professor Read has also donated some copies of the Directory and Newsletter. A further collection of papers has been passed to the Archives by Mr. Barry Hough dating from his period of office as Assistant Secretary from 1985-1990; the papers primarily comprise copy minutes, which have been added to existing holdings, and printed material.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: in 1995 an archivist was appointed to sort and list the archives of the SPTL as part of a project to identify records relating to legal education and research and to establish a legal education archive at IALS. The archive was appraised, weeded and sorted by the archivist and an assistant in the same year.

In 2009-2010, 2014 and 2020 project archivists were appointed to integrate later accessions of material into the existing catalogue. This new material was appraised, weeded and sorted accordingly.

Terms of deposit: Deposit Agreement dated 19 June 2020.

Accruals: Further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: Meeting minutes and papers which have been deposited by officers of the Society and which form part of their filing systems have been retained with their papers (SPTL/18, William Twining; SPTL/26, James Read; SPTL/33, Nick Wikeley; SPTL/34 (Peter Niven):

• Council Minutes - SPTL/10 (1971-1984), SPTL26/8 (1972-1980), SPTL/20 (1985-1996), and SPTL/34/6 (1997-2001)
• General Committee Minutes - SPTL/10 (1971-1973), SPTL/12 (1958-1971)
• Executive Committee Minutes - SPTL/10 SPTL26/7 (1972-1980), SPTL/10 (1974, 1981-1984) SPTL/18/20 (1978-1981) SPTL/34/7 (1997-2001).
• The core series for AGM Minutes is at SPTL/22 (1973-1979, 1981-1999, 2003-2008), whilst additional minutes are found at SPTL/10 (1971-1984) SPTL/4 (1910, 1913, 1921-1939, 1946-1949) SPTL18/1 (1965-1975), SPTL26/1 (1965-1981), SPTL/10 (1971-1984), SPTL/1 (1997-2001)

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Archivist and updated in 2010, 2014 and 2020 by project archivists; the catalogue was further updated in 2022.  

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

The Statute Law Society: Archives 1969-2000

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CONTACT DETAILS OF THE SOCIETY AT TIME OF WRITING

Administrator: Linda O'Regan
Email: statutelawsociety@gmail.com 
Website: http://www.statutelawsociety.co.uk/

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference: STLAW
Title:  Statute Law Society archives
Dates: 1969-2000
Level: collection (fonds)
Extent and Medium: 6 archive boxes of paper records (one linear metre)
Name of Creator: Statute Law Society
Catalogue created: July 2024

CONTEXT

Administrative history: 

Foundation: the Statute Law Society was founded in 1968 and has members throughout Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth.

Aims: the Society is a charitable body which aims to educate the legal profession and the public about the legislative process, with a view to encouraging improvements in statute law.

Its primary objects are:

• to procure and further the making of technical improvements in the form and manner in which statutes and delegated legislation are expressed and published with a view to making the same more readily intelligible, and
• to further the education of the public in the processes and scope of legislation of all kinds and for this purpose to gather and disseminate information on legislative processes.

The Society fulfils its brief by:

• keeping members informed via Legislative e-mail alerts; 
• updates on literature of interest;
• lectures and events offered by the Society and other groups;
• organising Statute Law Society lectures and conferences;
• providing opportunities for informal discussion among members of the legislative community through Society events. 

Administrative history: The Society is governed by a Council comprising a President, up to six Vice-Presidents, Honorary Officers and up to thirty ordinary members.  It holds an Annual Conference each Autumn.  It is a registered Charity (no. 261226).

The current President of the Society is Lord Sales, Justice of the Supreme Court.  The Hon Mr Justice Garnham is the current Chairman of the Council.   The Constitution of the Society is here: https://www.statutelawsociety.co.uk/constitution.

CONTENT

Scope and content: the surviving records comprise minutes, agenda, correspondence files, records of conferences and some printed material, dating from c.1975-1999.  The whereabouts of earlier records of the Society, if any have survived, are currently not known.

Format: currently hard copy only.

ACCESS AND USE

Language of scripts: English

System of arrangement: the records are arranged in series as listed overleaf.
Conditions governing access:  all records are open to public access 20 years after the last date of file other than those containing personal data, which are closed for 75 years.  Closed items are delineated in red.

Copyright/conditions governing reproduction: vested in the IALS, other than published material. Copyright declaration form to be completed. Digital photography copyright declaration form to be completed.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: the surviving archive of the Society was transferred to the Records of Legal Education Archives (now part of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Archives) at IALS in June 2001 at the request of the former secretary, Juliet Fussell.  

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: with the agreement of the Secretary, the records were weeded in 2001, both during the initial listing boxing exercise and again when being allocated series numbers, to remove ephemera and duplicate material.

Terms of deposit: Deed of Gift dated 11 July 2024. 

Accruals: further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:  the IALS Library contains texts of some of the many lectures organised by the Statute Law Society for its members:  http://www.statutelawsociety.co.uk/library/

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: 

[if before 2000] Rules or conventions: original catalogue compiled in 1999 by Clare Cowling, Archivist. The catalogue was updated by Clare Cowling in 2021 and 2024.

The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. 

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IDENTITY STATEMENT

Archive Reference: TWIN  
Title: Professor William L Twining, Law Teacher: papers
Dates: 1944-2014
Level of description: collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 41 archive boxes and 9 PDF files (9 shelf metres; 587 MB)
Name of creator: Professor W L Twining
Catalogue last updated: February 2024

CONTEXT

Biographical History: William Lawrence Twining (b.1934) has had a long and distinguished career in law teaching and has been involved in many projects relating to legal education.  He was educated at Charterhouse School, Brasenose College, Oxford and the University of Chicago.  

University posts:

• Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Khartoum (1958-1961)
• Senior Lecturer in Law at University College, Dar-es-Salaam (1961-1965)
• Professor of Jurisprudence at the Queen's University, Belfast (1965-1972)
• Professor of Law at the University of Warwick (1972-1982)
• Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London (1983-1996)
• Director of University of London LLM Review (1992-1993)

Other activities:

• Editor of Law in Context series, 1961-1991
• Membership of the Committee on Legal Education in Northern Ireland (1972-1974)
• Presidency of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (SPTL; now the Society of Law Teachers) (1978-1979)
• Presidency of the UK Society for Legal and Social Philosophy (1980-1983)
• Chairmanship of the Bentham Committee (1982- )
• Chairmanship of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) (1983-1993)

Publications 

Publications include: How to do things with rules with David Miers (1976); editor of Law publishing and legal information: Small jurisdictions of the British Isles with Jennifer Uglow (1981); Theories of evidence: Bentham and Wigmore (c1985); editor of Legal theory and common law (1986); editor of Essays on Kelsen with Richard Tur (1986); editor of Learning lawyers' skills with Neil Gold and Karl Mackie (1989); editor of Access to legal education and the legal profession with Rajeev Dhavan and Neil Kibble (1989); Rethinking evidence: exploratory essays (1990); editor of Issues of self-determination (1991); Analysis of evidence: how to do things with facts with Terence Anderson (1991); editor of Evidence and proof with Alex Stein (1992); joint editor of Legal Records in the Commonwealth with Emma Varnden Quick (Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1994); Blackstone's tower: the English law school (1994); Law in context: enlarging a discipline (1997); edited the Law in Context series and the Jurists' series.  See the IALS online library catalogue for further publications.

CONTENT 

Scope and content: The collection comprises records relating to Professor Twining’s work for specific professional bodies and to research projects, predominantly focussed on the areas of the history of legal education and the teaching of legal education.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 

System of arrangement: There was no discernible original order across the two tranches of material.  Therefore, in order to give an overview of career and research interests and to support future accruals, the material has been sorted into three broad series relating to general academic career (TWIN/1), organisations and boards on which Prof Twining sat (TWIN/2); and research work (TWIN/3).  Third party articles and publications deposited have been retained as TWIN/4.  Within these series, the material has been sorted chronologically in order to give a sense of chronological development.

Conditions governing access: Open 20 years after last date on file other than material containing personal data.  Closed items are designated in red.

Conditions governing reproduction: Copyright remains with Professor Twining; requests to publish material should be referred to him (contact details available from the Archivist). Copyright declaration form to be completed. Digital photography copyright declaration form to be completed.

Copyright: Vested in Professor Twining, other than in 3rd party published material.

Physical characteristics: Primarily paper with some PDF files.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION 

Archival history: The records have been deposited with IALS in three tranches.  The first tranche was received between 1995 and 1997 as part of the Records of Legal Education project.  This project resulted in the creation of a Records of Legal Education Archives (now subsumed into the IALS Archives), into which these papers were deposited. The papers related to the Law in Context series, Laws In London project and the review of the University of London LLM course, as well as papers relating to the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, the Society of Public Teachers of Law and of the Commonwealth Legal Records Project.

In March 2013, a second set of material was deposited at IALS via Professor Fiona Cownie who sorted, appraised and identified the material prior to its transfer to the Archives.  

In 2016 a further tranche of Twining material was deposited by Professor Cownie.  A detailed list of this material was made in 2020 as part of a project to catalogue SLS records by the project cataloguer, Zoe Karens.  

Immediate source of acquisition: Professor Twining and Professor Cownie.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: During the Records of Legal Education project (1994-1998), records created or obtained by Prof Twining as an officer of the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, the Society of Public Teachers of the Law and of the Commonwealth Legal Records Project were transferred to the collections held at IALS and catalogued as part of these collections (see Related Material below).  This practice has been discontinued and the material deposited at IALS after this period has been catalogued as part of the Twining collection. 

Obvious duplicates and material not related to legal education or Professor Twining’s career have been deaccessioned.  For specific appraisal decisions please see under the relevant series descriptions.

Terms of deposit: Deposit Agreement dated 11 February 2020.

Accruals: No further accruals are expected.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: material deposited by Prof Twining between 1995 and 1997 which was accumulated and created by him as an officer of a specific organisation or group was catalogued in the relevant collections under the following references:

Professor Twining was also Supervisor of the following projects whose papers are held by IALS:

• The Commonwealth Legal Records Project, the administrative records of which were passed to IALS for safekeeping by the co-ordinator on the project's completion in 1993.  These papers are held in the IALS Archives; ref: CLRP. 
• The Records of Legal Education Project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, from 1994-1998.  The administrative records of the project were passed to the IALS for safekeeping by the co-ordinator on the project's completion in 1998.  These papers are held in the IALS Archives; ref RLEP.
• The Legal Records at Risk Project, financed by a generous philanthropic donor and based at the IASLS, which ran from 2017-2019.  Published material, including a book on the Project’s findings, is available on the IALS Archives website at https://ials.sas.ac.uk/ials-library/archives/lrar-project

Related material held elsewhere: some of Professor Twining's papers relating to law teaching in Dar-es-Salaam are held at Rhodes House Library (ref: MSS Afr s 1825 811 (115).  

DESCRIPTION NOTES 

Archivist's note: The original listing, sorting, arrangement and appraisal recommendations of the first tranche was carried out by Clare Cowling as part of the Records of Legal Education project 1996-1998.  Subsequent cataloguing, arrangement and appraisal was carried out by Melanie Peart between 2014 and 2015, along with the sorting, appraisal, arrangement and cataloguing of the second tranche of material.  In 2020 the third tranche was formally accessioned by the SLS project cataloguer, Zoe Karens, as part of the SLS cataloguing project, to determine how much of the material comprised records of the SLS.  In 2022 funding was achieved for Zoe Karens to catalogue all papers remaining in the Twining accessions.

Rules or conventions: Original catalogue compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.  

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CONTACT DETAILS OF ORGANISATION AT TIME OF WRITING

Address: https://british-association-comparative-law.org/contact/
Secretary: Claudina Richards, University of East Anglia  
Telephone: n/a
Fax: n/a
Email:  c.richards@uea.ac.uk
Website: https://british-association-comparative-law.org/

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference: UKNCCL 
Title: British Association of Comparative Law (formerly United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law): archives
Dates: 1934-1989
Level: collection (fonds)
Extent and Medium: 2 archive boxes 
Name of Creator: United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law (now the British Association of Comparative Law)
Catalogue last updated: January 2023

CONTEXT

Administrative History: 
Foundation: the United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law (UKNCCL; now the British Association of Comparative Law) was probably established in 1956 (the date of the earliest colloquium recorded in the IALS Library).  
Aims: its object is to advance education by promoting and encouraging the study of Comparative law.  
Administration: its membership is open to law schools that provide for the teaching of Comparative law; and institutions and organisations that are concerned with the promotion of the comparative study of law. It arranges regular colloquia on Comparative law; most colloquia papers have been published.
The Association is run by a Council overseen by an elected Chairman.  Business is carried out by a Chair, a Secretary and a Treasurer. Its name has been changed to the British Association of Comparative Law.

CONTENT

Scope and content: the archives comprises the Constitution of the UKNCCL, 1960, 1971; minutes and papers of Council, 1969-1989; correspondence and papers of joint honorary secretaries, 1965-1973; papers of UKNCCL colloquia, 1970-1971.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English 
System of arrangement: each series of records is arranged differently; some are chronological, some alphabetical and others have no discernable system of arrangement.
Conditions governing access: not yet agreed.
Conditions governing reproduction: copies of material may be made for private use.  Requests for permission to publish any material copied or extracts thereof should be made to the copyright holder.  A Copyright Declaration – request for copies or a  Copyright Declaration - self service photography form must be completed. 
Copyright: vested in the UKNCCL.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history: the records listed below were transferred to the Records of Legal Education Archives (now part of the IALS Archives) in 1997 by Professor James Read, Joint Honorary Secretary of the UKNCCL from 1972-1973. 
Terms of deposit: none
Accruals: further accruals are expected. 

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: rules or conventions: the original catalogue was compiled in 1998 by Clare Cowling, Records of Legal Education Archivist.  Accruals received between 1997-2007 were added in 2020 and 2023 by Clare Cowling.
The catalogue has been compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.