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Major accessions to repositories in 2019 relating to Law

Local

Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service

  • Ampthill Magistrates court: adult court registers 1960-1993 (PSA1)
  • Biggleswade Magistrates court: adult court registers 1955-1999 (PSBW1)
  • Biggleswade Magistrates court: juvenile court registers 1981-1999 (PSBW2)
  • Dunstable Magistrates court: juvenile court registers 1968-1980 (PSD3)
  • Leighton Buzzard and South Beds magistrates court: adult court registers 1961-1999 (PSLB1)
  • Leighton Buzzard and South Beds magistrates court: juvenile court registers 1988-1999 (PSLB2)
  • Luton Magistrates court: adult court registers 1954-1999 (PSL3)
  • North Bedfordshire and Bedford Magistrates Court: adult court registers 1954-1999 (PSB2)
  • North Bedfordshire and Bedford Magistrates Court: juvenile court registers 1981-1999 (PSB3)
  • Sharnbrook magistrates court: adult court registers 1955-1964 (PSS)
  • Vincent Sykes & Higham, solicitors: probate and deeds of Great Barford property of Freeman, Elizabeth; award book for Nether Dean 1801-1916 (X1027)

Berkshire Record Office

  • East Berkshire Division Petty Sessions: licensing files 20th cent (PS/EBacc10556)
  • Forest Petty Sessions: court registers 1966-1980 (PS/FTacc10502)
  • Maidenhead County Petty Sessions: court registers 1961-1986 (PS/MDacc10503)
  • Maidenhead Division Petty Sessions: licensing registers 1958-1985 (PS/Macc10557)
  • Slough Petty Sessions: licensing registers 1960s-1980s (PS/Sacc10558)
  • Windsor County Petty Sessions: court registers 1979-1980 (PS/WICacc10505)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Brighton and Hove Magistrates' Division: Family Court registers 1998-2009 (13496)
  • Eastbourne and Hailsham Magistrates Division: Magistrates' Court Registers 2000-2003 (13535)
  • Eastbourne and Hailsham Magistrates' Division: Brighton Magistrates' Court Registers 1999-2003 (13363)
  • Hastings Combined Courts: Hastings Magistrates' Court Registers, 1975-2009; Eastbourne and Hastings County Court registers, 1856-1987 1856-2009 (13406)
  • HMP Lewes: glass negatives showing photographs of prisoners 1900-1914 (13561)
  • Howlett and Clarke, solicitors, Brighton: letters to Thomas Attree and successors 1810-1849 (13374)

Essex Record Office

  • Wade and Davies, solicitors: deeds of Dunmow and surrounding area 1600-1965 (A15114)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • HM Prison, Gloucester: photographs of the prison, prisoners and staff supplied by the Home Office early 20th cent (D15106)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Basingstoke Petty Sessions: Basingstoke Magistrates Court register 1962-1964 (97M83)
  • Eastleigh Petty Sessions: court registers, juvenile court register, combined domestic court registers for Eastleigh, Fareham and Gosport 1983-1991 (101M86)
  • Fareham Petty Sessions: court registers 1986-1989 (40M70)
  • Gosport Petty Sessions: court registers 1987-1988 (48M72)
  • Havant Petty Sessions: court registers. register of licensed premises, register of applications for special licensing orders, domestic court registers, legal aid register 1974-2009 (95M83)
  • Joseph Warner (fl1860), of Fareham: legal notebooks, memoranda books marked 'ex libris J H Warner', containing rough manuscript notes on legal matters, sample conveyances, cases for legal counsel's opinions, observations c1860 (96A19)
  • Alton/ Aldershot (combined) Petty Sessions: Magistrates Court registers and youth court register 1998-1999 (41M73)
  • Andover Petty Sessions: Magistrates Court registers and youth court register 1999 (129M94)

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

  • Border Force: includes arrivals and departures; returns of ships and seamen; annual reports and quarterly returns; staff instruction volumes; general instruction volumes; monthly circulars; staff attendance registers; immigration branch lists and general records used for support by immigration officers 1919-1976 (C DPBF)

Isle of Man Public Record Office

  • Isle of Man Courts of Justice: High Bailiff records and misc records rel to court proceedings and law reports 1824-1996 (A152)
  • Isle of Man Courts of Justice: index entry book incl lists of petitions and inquests (1744-1847) c1659-1847 (A154)
  • Isle of Man Courts of Justice: High Bailiff and Deputy High Bailiff Court records incl summons and order pages 1984-1996 (A161)
  • Isle of Man Courts of Justice: Licensing Court records incl licences for brewers, hawkers, peddlers, retailers and publicans and licensing appeals 1818-1999 (A153)
  • Isle of Man High Court, Common Law Division: workmen's Compensation Act records incl entry books and case papers 1919-1962 (A132)
  • Clerk of the Isle of Man Justices: records incl court minute books and magistrate's order books 1849-1968 (A174)
  • Isle of Man Deemsters Court and High Court, Common Law division: bankruptcy minute books 1882-1966 (A134)
  • Isle of Man Deemsters Court and High Court, Common Law division: bankruptcy entry books and proceedings files 1821-1972 (A135)
  • Isle of Man Deemsters Court and High Court:, Common Law division: bankruptcy distribution receipts and associated records 1891-1964 (A136)
  • Isle of Man Courts of Justice: inquest records incl case papers, entry books and record book with alphabetical index of names 1800-2006 (A168)
  • Isle of Man High Court and antecedents: records incl minute books, High Courts of Justice draft judgements and bank records books, reports, typescript evidence and fines book 1818-1982 (A157)
  • Isle of Man Summary Court: records incl draft orders, cause books, cause lists and affidavits for Douglas, Ramsey and Peel 1855-1985 (A143)
  • Isle of Man Superior Court (1884-present) and antecedents: records incl Testamentary minute books, cause books, precepts and returns of defunct for sheading probate sessions, cause lists, petition lists and records rel to specific cases 1881-1991 (A140)
  • Isle of Man Chancery Court and successors: records incl appeals, pleadings and proceedings, minutes, decrees, ledgers, draft judgements and petition lists 1865-1986 (A141)
  • Isle of Man High Court of Justice, Civil division (2009-present) and predecessors: records incl minutes, Douglas Cause books, Common Law cause lists, Douglas summary cause sheets and Douglas and Castletown petition lists 1834-1989 (A142)
  • Isle of Man High Court and antecedents: records rel to commissions and oaths 1795-1994 (A158)
  • Isle of Man High Court and antecedents: bonds, presentments and contempts 1794-1975 (A159)
  • Isle of Man High Court, Chancery Division: petition entry books, petition subject matter index, action entry books, petition files and action files 1900-1978 (A163)
  • Isle of Man High Court, Common Law Division and antecedents: action entry books and case files 1800-1996 (A166)
  • Isle of Man Courts of Justice: adoption records, incl case files and alphabetical index of adoptions 1953-2008 (A167)
  • Isle of Man Court of General Gaol Delivery: gaol court records incl minutes and copy judgements 1881-1988 (A144)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Lincolnshire assizes: calendar of prisoners in Lincoln Castle 1844 (MISC DON 2075)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • Croydon Magistrates Court: adult and juvenile court registers 1984-2002 (B19/115)
  • Guildhall Magistrates Court: court registers 1990-1991 (B19/018)

Norfolk Record Office

  • King's Lynn Magistrates Court: court registers, juvenile court registers, domestic court registers, licensing records and registers of clubs 1956-2001 (ACC 2019/17)
  • HM Prison/Young Offenders' Institution Norwich: plans of drainage and well; details of scaffold and cell fittings 1886-1912 (ACC 2019/116)

Nucleus: The Nuclear and Caithness Archives (Caithness Archives)

  • Andrew Rugg (fl1881-1944), Sheriff Clerk Depute and fishcurer, Wick: family and business papers 1881-1944 (P935)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Oxford Prison: additional records showing the layout of the site and its immediate vicinity, including County Hall, Castle Hill and the County Police Station 1875 (6815)
  • Oxfordshire Magistrates Court additional records: including courts held at Oxford, Thame, Didcot, Faringdon, Wantage, Abingdon, Henley, Thame and Watlington 1987-1990 (6816)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

  • Plymouth Borough Gaol: minutes of the Justices of the Peace in Quarter Sessions rel to governance and oversight of Plymouth prison 1867-1924 (4228)

Surrey History Centre

  • Ashford Remand Centre: Governor's journal 1978-1979 (9929)
  • HM Coroner for Surrey: inquest papers, inquest registers, natural death registers, registers of deaths, court lists and certificate logs 1987-2014 (630)

West Sussex Record Office

  • Albery and Lucas of Midhurst, solicitors: records 1840s-1960s (19461)
  • West Sussex HM Coroner: case files 2003 (19373)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

  • Brearley Mill, Midgley: legal papers incl a legal case of Attorney General against Murgatroyd 1661-1744 (WYC:1926)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

  • Battye and Hesp Solicitors: corresp recieved by Battye and Hesp Solicitors, Edward Lake Hesp, solicitor, and Fenton, Jones and Armitage solicitors, rel to clients affairs and insurance policies 1826-1880 (WYK1887)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

  • Receiving book of photographs of both male and female criminals taken from Sessions, giving name, date, description of crime and length of sentence 1877-1880 (WYW1924)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

  • Sophy Bryson (d2018), member of Maghaberry Prison Board of Visitors: diaries of prison visits, correspondence, letters, photographs and printed material 1867-1976 (D4714/UNL/1)

Special

Royal College of Physicians of London

  • Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-1880), physician and forensic scientist: medical jurisprudence case notes, research notes, professional and personal papers 1818-1887 (MS-TAYLA)

University

Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive

  • Trevor Roland Kirby (1923-2015), Palestine policeman: photograph albums (2) incl images of Palestine 1944-1948, Baghdad 1948 and Tabriz 1949, and a large Palestine Police flag 1944-1949 (GB165-0585)