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CLERK'S (LEGAL) DEPARTMENT: MAGISTRATES COURTS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): MCC/CL/L/MC

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CLERK'S (LEGAL) DEPARTMENT: MAGISTRATES COURTS

Date(s): 1957-1965

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Middlesex Magistrates' Courts Committee functioned for the whole County, and its members included justices representing each petty sessional division in the County. The Council worked closely with the Committee, and was empowered to make representations to the Home Secretary regarding any decision to alter the petty sessional divisions. The Council was expected to pay the expenses of the Committee and to appoint clerks to the justices and their staff. The Council also assumed responsiblity for the provision of petty sessional courthouses and the necessary furniture and books.

Magistrates' Courts were presided over by Justices of the Peace, who dealt at petty sessions, held locally, for minor offences committed within that petty sessional division. More serious offences were tried at quarter sessions.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to magistrates courts, 1957-1965, including general papers and papers relating to Barnet, Harrow, Highgate and Willesden Courthouses.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

MCC/CL/L/MC/01: Miscellaneous material.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See also MCC/CL/L/SJ and MCC/CL/MC for more records relating to courthouses.

Publication note:

For further information on the history of the Middlesex County Council please see Middlesex by Sir Clifford Radcliffe (2 editions, 1939 and 1953), LMA Library reference 97.09 MID; and The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex: 76 years of local government, 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1965, by Middlesex County Council (1965), LMA library reference S97.09 MID.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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: April to June 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Court buildings | Public buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Magistrates | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Magistrates courts | Legal systems | Law

Personal names

Corporate names
Clerk's Department | Middlesex County Council
MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
Middlesex Magistrates' Courts Committee

Places
Harrow (district) | Harrow | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Highgate | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
New Barnet | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Willesden | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Barnet
Brent
Camden
Haringey
Islington