Society of Public Teachers of Law (now Society of Legal Scholars) Archive 1909-2011
Society of Public Teachers of Law (now Society of Legal Scholars) Archive (PDF list)
Address at time of writing c/o Mrs. S J Thomson, Administrative Secretary, Society of Legal Scholars, School of Law, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 4039, Fax +44 (0)23 8059 3024, e-mail: s.j.thomson@soton.ac.uk . The Society's website is http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/ The Society regularly publishes a Directory which lists current officers of the Society and their addresses.
Extent and form : 30 volumes, 43 boxes
Access : all records over 10 years old are open, other than printed material which is open immediately, or items containing personal data which are closed under the terms of Data Protection legislation. Where some items within a series are closed this is noted with the series description.
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. 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 p.9).
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 as the Society of Legal Scholars.
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 or transfer: 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 and James Read 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 RLEA Archivist and an assistant in the same year.
In 2009-2010 a project archivist was appointed to integrate later accessions of material into the existing catalogue. This new material was appraised, weeded and sorted accordingly.
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
Accruals: further accruals are expected.
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 a second stage of work was 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.
Finding aids: A n index to SPTL papers by series number was created during the initial cataloguing in 1995, when the catalogue was only available as hard copy document and therefore not searchable electronically. This index has been amended during the cataloguing of the second tranche of material in 2009 - 2010.
Copyright : vested in the Records of Legal Education Archives, other than published material.
SOCIETY OF PUBLIC TEACHERS OF LAW: CLASS LIST
quantity: 30 volumes, 43 boxes
access : all papers over 10 years old are open, other than printed material which is open immediately, or items containing personal data which are closed under the terms of Data Protection legislation. Where some pieces within a class are closed this is noted with the class description.
There is an index to SPTL papers by class number at the end of this entry.
Class Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 1 1909-2006 Minute books of Council, General Committee and special committees
A.SPTL 2 1908-1950 General correspondence files
A.SPTL 3 1908-1950 Subject files
A.SPTL 4 1910-1949 Papers of annual meetings
A.SPTL 5 1909-1931 Annotated papers presented at SPTL meetings
A.SPTL 6 1909-1952 Register of members
A.SPTL 7 1909-1990 Lists of members and rules
A.SPTL 8 1920-1921 Vouchers, invoices and related correspondence
A.SPTL 9 1962-1980 Ledger of members and payments
A.SPTL 10 1963-1984 Subject files
A.SPTL 11 1955-1998 Correspondence and papers of the SPTL Sub-committee on Libraries (later SPTL Libraries Committee)
A.SPTL 12 1958-1971 Correspondence and papers relating to General Committee meetings and annual conferences (particularly the Durham Conference of 1969)
A.SPTL 13 1924-2011Journal of the SPTL/Legal Studies
A.SPTL 14 1953-2011 Directory of members
A.SPTL 15 1966-1993 Printed papers relating to SPTL interests
A.SPTL 16 1968-2009 Annual dinners and Conferences: programmes and printed papers
A.SPTL 17 1973-2009 SPTL Newsletter, later SPTL Reporter
A.SPTL 18 1965-1985 Correspondence and papers of William L Twining as an officer and member of the Society
A.SPTL 19 1982-1994 Correspondence relating to transfer of SPTL archive material to IALS
A.SPTL 20 1985-1996 Council: agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 21 1985-1996 Executive Committee: agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 22 1985-2004 Annual General Meetings: agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 23 1993-1995 Programmes of annual activities
A.SPTL 24 1994-1995 Committee membership lists
A.SPTL 25 1983-2009 SPTL publications
A.SPTL 26 1963-1986 Correspondence and papers of James S Read as an officer of the Society
A.SPTL 27 1986-1990 Annual meetings of the SPTL and the Law Commission: minutes and papers
A.SPTL 28 1988-1989 Annual meetings of the SPTL and the Lord Chancellor's Department: minutes and papers
A.SPTL 29 1983-2003 SPTL responses to particular issues
A.SPTL 30 2003 Research Sub Committee Papers
A.SPTL 31 2003-2004 Annual Conference Advisory sub-comittee (ACAS)
A.SPTL 32 1960-1989 IALS files relating to SPTL
A.SPTL 33 1998-2006 Nick Wikeley's papers as Honorary Secretary of SPTL/SLS
SPTL33/1 1998-2006 Correspondence / Subject files
SPTL33/2 2001-2005 Research Sub Committee files
SPTL33/3 2001-2006 Papers re SPTL/SLS responses
A.SPTL 34 1996-2001 Records of Peter Niven, Administrative Secretary of SPTL
SPTL34/1 1996-2001 General Correspondence files
SPTL34/2 1996-2001 Correspondence about meetings
SPTL34/3 1998-2001 Seminar Correspondence files
SPTL34/4 1994-2000 Loose papers
SPTL34/5 1998-2000 Council/Executive Committee Correspondence
SPTL34/6 1997-2001 Council papers
SPTL34/7 1997-2001 Executive papers
A.SPTL 35 1996-1999 SPTL seminars
A.SPTL 36 2003-2005 Receptions and events
A.SPTL 37 2001-2005 Press Cuttings/Press Releases
A.SPTL 38 2001 Financial Records
SOCIETY OF PUBLIC TEACHERS OF LAW: HANDLIST OF RECORDS
[Note: original reference numbers allocated before transfer to IALS and preparation of this handlist have been retained and are in bold type].
A.SPTL 1: MINUTE BOOKS OF COUNCIL, GENERAL COMMITTEE
AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES, 1909-1977
6 volumes
access: open
Five volumes in this class were originally numbered in sequence A1-A5. Several committees used the same minute book. The books were not listed in chronological order and the numbering sequence was probably imposed at a later date (e.g. minutes of the earliest meetings are in minute books A2 and A4). For later minutes of Council see A.SPTL 10, A.SPTL 20 and A.SPTL 26/8. For later minutes of General Committee see A.SPTL 10 and A.SPTL 12. For minutes of Executive Committee see A.SPTL 10, A.SPTL 21 and A.SPTL 26/7. For President's papers from 1978-1981 relating to meetings of Council see A.SPTL 18/20-21.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 1/1 1909-1925 Council: 1st - 17th meetings, 1 July
[A2] 1909 - 10 July 1925
A.SPTL 1/2 1926-1966 Council: 18th - 35th meetings, 9 July
[A3] 1926 - 23 July 1966
A.SPTL 1/3 1909-1921 1) General Committee 1st - 28th
[A4] meetings, 15 Dec 1909 - 10 Dec 1921
2) Special Committee on the Education of the Articled Clerk, 1st - 2nd meetings, 15 July 1910 - 11 March 1911
3) Special Committee on Compilation of Casebooks, 1st - 8th meetings, 12 Mar 1914 - 27 Apr 1921
4) Special Editorial Committee for Casebooks, 1st - 2nd meetings, 4 July 1914 - 15 May 1915
5) Joint Meeting of General Committee and Casebooks Committee, 9 July and 10 Dec 1921
A.SPTL 1/4 1922-1937 1) General Committee, 29th meeting,
[A5] 21 Apr 1922 - 16 Dec 1937
2) Sub-committee on Life Insurance, 1, 21 April 1922; 1 July 1922
3) Case Books Committee, 10th - 12th meetings, 27 Nov 1922; 13 Dec 1922; 13 Jan 1923, 7 July 1923
4) Sub-committee on possible issue of a journal: 21 Apr 1923; 7 July 1923; 8 Jan 1929
5) Committee on a Bibliography in Real Property Law: 6 Jan 1928; 28 Jan 1928
6) Sub-committee to settle arrangements for Annual Meeting, 20 May 1922
7) Sub-committee on Year Book Study, 14 June 1923; 30 Mar 1925; 27 Jan 1926; 17 Apr 1926; 8 July 1927; 10 Oct 1927
8) Sub-committee to consider arrangements for Annual Meeting, 7 Apr 1924; 29 Apr 1927
9) Sub-committee on change of name of Society, 30 Jan 1928
10) Special Committee on Lectureship on Medieval English Law, 7 Nov 1929
11) Sub-committee to consider scope and possible amendment of Rule 5, 21 Oct 1932
12) Sub-committee on Co-ordination of Research [listing of unpublished theses], 29 Sept 1934
13) Standing Committee on Curricula, 16 Dec 1937
A.SPTL 1/5 1938-1967 General Committee Minutes, Mar 1938 - Sept 1967
A.SPTL 1/6 1967-1977 1) General Committee minutes, 15 Dec
[A1] 1967 - 30 Aug 1973
2) Council Minutes 1st - 13th meetings, 13 Dec 1973 - 16 Dec 1977
A.SPTL 2: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES, 1908-1950
3 boxes
access: open
This class comprises general correspondence on various matters including meetings, subscriptions and membership. Arrangement is alphabetical within covering dates. The original numbering system (SPTL Correspondence Files 1-44) has been retained. The files were weeded in 1937 and again in 1950 and a large quantity of letters was destroyed; where this occurred the original notes on the old folders (now destroyed) are quoted in the list below. A small amount of destruction was undertaken in 1995 of ephemeral material in files which had missed the earlier weeding (nos. 40-44).
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 2/1 1907-1908 SPTL Correspondence File 1
(Pts 1-2) Jan 1909 [old file cover note: "chiefly regarding constituent meeting - unimportant stuff destroyed by Dr. Radcliffe, March 1937 under committee resolution of Dec 1935"]
A.SPTL 2/2 Jan - Nov 1909 SPTL Correspondence File 2
(Pts 1-2)
A.SPTL 2/3 19 Nov 1909 - SPTL Correspondence File 3
30 June 1920 "Unimportant matter destroyed in 1937" [note applies to files 3-15]
A.SPTL 2/4 1 July 1910 - 30 Apr 1911 SPTL Correspondence File 4
A.SPTL 2/5 4 May - 29 SPTL Correspondence File 5
July 1911
A.SPTL 2/6 30 July 1911 - SPTL Correspondence File 6
12 June 1912
A.SPTL 2/7 13 June 1912 - SPTL Correspondence File 7
8 May 1913
A.SPTL 2/8 9 May - 4 July SPTL Correspondence File 8
1913
A.SPTL 2/9 5 July 1913 - SPTL Correspondence File 9
17 Apr 1914
A.SPTL 2/10 8 Apr - 4 SPTL Correspondence File 10
July 1914
A.SPTL 2/11 5 July 1914 - SPTL Correspondence File 11
25 Apr 1915
A.SPTL 2/12 22 Apr - 15 SPTL Correspondence File 12
July 1915
A.SPTL 2/13 13 July 1915 - SPTL Correspondence File 13
18 Oct 1916
A.SPTL 2/14 19 Oct 1916 - SPTL Correspondence File 14
8 May 1919 "None worth saving"
A.SPTL 2/15 May 1919 - SPTL Correspondence File 15
13 July 1920 "ditto"
A.SPTL 2/16 14 July 1920 - SPTL Correspondence File 16
5 May 1921 "Unimportant matter destroyed 1937" [note applies to files 16-30]
A.SPTL 2/17 6 May - 10 Nov SPTL Correspondence File 17
1921
A.SPTL 2/18 11 Nov 1921 - SPTL Correspondence File 18
18 Dec 1922
A.SPTL 2/19 19 Dec 1922 - SPTL Correspondence File 19
30 June 1923
A.SPTL 2/20 1 July 1923 - SPTL Correspondence File 20
May 1924
A.SPTL 2/21 May 1924 - SPTL Correspondence File 21
15 Apr 1925
A.SPTL 2/22 16 Apr 1925 - SPTL Correspondence File 22
29 Jan 1926
A.SPTL 2/23 30 Jan 1926 - SPTL Correspondence File 23
22 Apr 1927
A.SPTL 2/24 Apr 1927 - SPTL Correspondence File 24
30 Apr 1928
A.SPTL 2/25 1 May 1928 - SPTL Correspondence File 25
14 Feb 1929
A.SPTL 2/26 15 Feb 1929 - SPTL Correspondence File 26
25 Jan 1930
A.SPTL 2/27 26 Jan 1930 - SPTL Correspondence File 27
23 Mar 1931
A.SPTL 2/28 23 Mar - 22 SPTL Correspondence File 28
May 1932
A.SPTL 2/29 23 May 1932 - SPTL Correspondence File 29
31 Mar 1933
A.SPTL 2/30 1 Apr 1933 - SPTL Correspondence File 30
May 1934
A.SPTL 2/31 17 July - 21 SPTL Correspondence File 31 "a few
Dec 1934 letters kept from files when old correspondence was examined and destroyed in May 1950 (see Minutes)" [note applies to files 31-40]
A.SPTL 2/32 22 Dec 1934 - SPTL Correspondence File 32
20 Nov 1935
A.SPTL 2/33 1 Dec 1935 - SPTL Correspondence File 33
30 June 1936
A.SPTL 2/34 July 1936 - SPTL Correspondence File 34
May 1937 [entire file destroyed]
A.SPTL 2/35 29 June 1937 - SPTL Correspondence File 34
19 Oct 1938 [incorrectly numbered]
A.SPTL 2/36 Nov - Dec SPTL Correspondence File 36
1938 [entire file destroyed]
A.SPTL 2/37 Dec 1938 - SPTL Correspondence File 37
29 Mar 1939
A.SPTL 2/38 Apr 1939 - SPTL Correspondence File 38
June 1940 [entire file destroyed]
A.SPTL 2/39 27 July 1940 - SPTL Correspondence File 39
22 July 1946
A.SPTL 2/40 27 July 1946 - SPTL Correspondence File 40
29 Apr 1947
A.SPTL 2/41 6 June 1947 - SPTL Correspondence File 41
2 June 1948
A.SPTL 2/42 3 June 1948 - SPTL Correspondence File 42
30 Apr 1949
A.SPTL 2/43 1 May 1949 - SPTL Correspondence File 43
20 Feb 1950
A.SPTL 2/44 21 Feb - 25 SPTL Correspondence File 44
Sept 1950
A.SPTL 3: SUBJECT FILES, 1908-1950
1 box
access: open
This class comprises a number of documents originally bundled together under the title "Various matters considered from time to time by SPTL". A copy of the original contents list is included (the original was in extremely bad repair and was therefore destroyed). There is a very small amount of correspondence; the class probably complements A.SPTL 2.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 3/1 15 Oct 1908 Association of Teachers of Law - list of teachers of law throughout England and Wales
A.SPTL 3/2 1909-1922 "Various useful lists and statements" [one list of meeting places with dates, one list of presidential addresses]
A.SPTL 3/3 1909-1911; Annual reports of General Committee -
1917-1923; spares
1929-1932;
1934-1939;
A.SPTL 3/4 1911 Special Committee on the Education of the Articled Clerk 1912 - signed reports and President's corrected copy
A.SPTL 3/5 1923-1929 Papers relating to the Year Book Lectureship (subsequently Mediaeval Law Lectureship)
A.SPTL 3/6 1928/1929 "Mrs Holland's Civil List Pension" [application]
A.SPTL 3/7 1928-1933 Swiney Prize 1929
A.SPTL 3/8 1929 Proposed association of law faculties - papers
A.SPTL 3/9 21 Mar 1931 Qualification of Law Teachers at Technical Institutions - Prof Eastwood's report on "Legal Teaching: Lancashire and Cheshire"
A.SPTL 3/10 1934 Lord Atkins' Legal Education Committee - SPTL evidence [printed papers - some annotated]
A.SPTL 3/11 1934-1938 Printed circulars relating to meetings
A.SPTL 3/12 1937 Dr Jenning's memorandum on a proposed Institute of Legal Research, with background notes and correspondence
A.SPTL 3/13 1938-1939 Swiney Prize 1939 for a work on medical jurisprudence - papers
A.SPTL 3/14 1938-1950 Papers relating to legal activities in various law schools
A.SPTL 3/15 1947 Correspondence with Educational Interchange Council
A.SPTL 4: PAPERS OF ANNUAL MEETINGS, 1910-1949
7 folders
access: open
This class comprises papers, menus, seating plans etc from annual meetings and conferences. Most of the material is printed but there is some mss material - e.g. lists of participants and some correspondence. The papers were originally filed together in one box. For later programmes and printed papers relating to meetings and conferences see A.SPTL 16; for minutes and papers of AGMs see A.SPTL 18/20, A.SPTL 22 and A.SPTL 26/1.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 4/1 1910-1929 Papers on meetings and conferences:-
Gray's Inn 1910
Saddlers' Hall 1913 Cambridge 1921
UCL 1922
Law Society 1923
Oxford 1924
LSE 1925
Liverpool 1926
Painters Hall 1927
Cambridge 1928
Manchester 1929
A.SPTL 4/2 1930-1936 Papers:-
University of London 1930
Oxford 1931
Law Society 1932
Leeds 1933
Cardiff 1934
Exeter 1935
Bristol 1936
A.SPTL 4/3 1937-1938 Papers:-
University of London 1937
Cambridge 1938
A.SPTL 4/4 1939 Papers, Edinburgh 1939
A.SPTL 4/5 1946 Papers, LSE 1946
A.SPTL 4/6 1947-1948 Papers:-
Birmingham 1947
Oxford 1948
A.SPTL 4/7 1949 Papers, Nottingham 1949
A.SPTL 5: ANNOTATED PAPERS PRESENTED AT SPTL MEETINGS,
1909-1931
1 folder
access: open
The class comprises material presented at SPTL and other meetings, and was originally bound in a parcel entitled "Various reprints of papers and pamphlets", listed as follows:-
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 5/1 1909 Introductory address at the first Annual General Meeting by President Henry Goudy
A.SPTL 5/2 1921 H C Dowdall, "Anatomy of a Body Politic", from the Law Quarterly Review, Apr 1921
A.SPTL 5/3 1919 Henry Goudy, "Address on Law Reform", delivered at Gray's Inn on 3 July 1919, printed by OUP, 1919 [2 copies]
A.SPTL 5/4 1929 Edouard Lambert, "Le Role d'un Congres International de Droit Compare en l'An 1931", paper delivered at the Hague on the role of the International Congress, Paris, 1929
A.SPTL 5/5 1931 A E W Hazel, "Law Teaching and Law Practice", from the Law Quarterly Review, Oct 1931
A.SPTL 5/6 1931 SPTL, "Bibliography of the English Law of Real Property from 1922 to 1927", from the Journal of Comparative Legislation, Feb 1931, plus background material
A.SPTL 5/7 1912 Mss history of the Society, 1912
A.SPTL 5/8 1923 W S Holdsworth, "Charles Viner and the Abridgements of English Law", from the Law Quarterly Review, Jan 1923
A.SPTL 5/9 1922 A Pillet, "Le Professeur A V Dicey", from the Revue du Droit et de la Science Politique en France et a l'Etranger, 1922
A.SPTL 5/10 1925 Edouard Lambert, "The Teaching of Comparative Jurisprudence and the Institues of Comparative Law in France", read at an SPTL meeting on 10 July 1925
A.SPTL 5/11 1914 "Eloge of Sir William R. Anson DCL", by Henry Goudy, read at the Annual Meeting of the SPTL, 4 July 1914
A.SPTL 5/12 1914 SPTL, "Handbook of Legal Curricula at Various Centres of Education in England and Wales", 11 June 1914
A.SPTL 6: REGISTER OF MEMBERS (ALPHABETICAL), 1909-1952
1 volume
access: open
This class comprises a volume listing members alphabetically by date of joining the SPTL. It was discontinued in 1952 and appears to have been replaced by the printed directories of members from 1953 (see A.SPTL 14).
A.SPTL 7: LISTS OF MEMBERS AND RULES (PRINTED AND ANNOTATED),
WITH SOME COVERING CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1990
1 folder
access: open
The class includes a list of original members, 1909, and further lists for 1910-1939, 1946-1950, 1975 and 1990.
A.SPTL 8: VOUCHERS, INVOICES AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE,
1920-1921
1 folder
access: open
This class comprises miscellaneous correspondence and vouchers relating to financial matters, probably surviving by default or as a remnant after an attempt at weeding. There are no items of any particular value, and the class has only been retained because there is little material surviving for this period. Some similar papers relating to routine financial matters have survived in A.SPTL 2.
A.SPTL 9: LEDGER OF MEMBERS AND PAYMENTS, 1962-1980
1 volume
access: open
The ledger lists members chronologically by date of application, with payment made and date of membership. Included is a typewritten undated list of members and their addresses. It is probable that earlier ledgers were kept, but they have not survived.
A.SPTL 1O: SUBJECT FILES, 1963-1984
3 boxes
access: open
There is a gap in holdings of SPTL records, particularly correspondence files, during the 1950s; the fate of records during that time is unknown but it is likely that they were destroyed. This class appears to have been created in a further attempt to impose some sort of classification on the activities of the SPTL by lumping together all material for the above dates into assorted subject files. The files were originally numbered SPTL 1-10 and cover such diverse functions as minutes and agenda of meetings, Presidents' and Honorary Secretaries' correspondence, reports and papers on various working parties, and conference programmes. A contents list, possibly compiled when this material first arrived at IALS, is filed at the beginning of the class.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 10/1 1971-1975 SPTL meetings: minutes, agenda,
[SPTL 1] correspondence and papers;
1) 1st to 5th Meetings of Council, 13 Dec 1973, 15 Mar 74, 19 Sep 74, 12 Dec 74, 13 Mar 75 For 1st-3rd Meetings see File 5
2) Executive Committee - 3rd meeting, 1 Nov 1974
3) Draft of minutes of AGM, 20 Sept 1974
4) General Committee, 23 March 1973, 30 Aug 1973
5) Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, 27 Sept 1974
6) Annual Report of Council 1973/4 [printed]
7) Draft Annual Report of General Committee 1971/2
8) Correspondence on publishing and distribution of Annual Report 1974/5
9) Meeting of Sub-committee on the Vocational Year: minutes, 20 May 1974
10) SPTL Rules: Copy of rules and amendments proposed at AGM 1972/3
A.SPTL 10/2 1972-1975 Honorary Secretary's correspondence
[SPTL 2]
A.SPTL 10/3 1963-1982 - Correspondence with IALS, with related
[SPTL 3] papers [on outside old folder it says "for earlier correspondence see box file"]
- Memorandum on National Incomes Commission 1963
- Correspondence 1982: concerning location of archives & absence of certain documents owing to removal from collection
- Circular: SPTL conference Sept 22-4 1977
- Lecture by Zellick: Annual Conference 1976
- Newsletter: SPTL Young Members Group 1972
- Agenda for AGMs 1972, 1973, 1974
- Minutes of AGM Aug 31 1973
- Annual Report of Council 1973/4
- Notice: Working party established on Law Publishing 1973
- SPTL/Law Commission: allocation of working papers 1974
- Minutes for AGM Sept 22 1972
- Annual Report of General Committee 1972/3
- Minutes of General Committee 15 Dec 1972
- Agenda : Working party on constitution of society - report 1972/3
- Annual Conference programme 1972
- Report of General Committee 1971/2
- List of participants at annual conference 1972
- Minutes of General Committee, 24 Mar 1972
- Sub-committee on libraries: draft of submission to University Grants Committee, 13 Sept 1971
- Minutes of General Committee, Mar 26 1971
A.SPTL 10/4 1980-1982 Correspondence and papers of Presidents:
[SPTL 4] miscellaneous, with enclosures. Roughly in date order
1980/81: Peter Stein
1981/2 : J K Grodecki
A.SPTL 10/5 1971-1984 Council and General Committee: minutes,
[SPTL 5] agenda and related papers:
1) 1st, 2nd, 16-19th, 22nd-30th, 32nd meetings of Council, Sept 1971 - Sept 1984
2) General Committee, Sept 1971 - Aug 1973
A.SPTL 10/6 1974-1984 Executive Committee: minutes and agenda,
[SPTL 6] Feb - Nov 1974; June 1981 - June 1984
A.SPTL 10/7 1970-1979 Reports and papers [file marked
[SPTL 7] "correspondence etc 1970's]; file of various reports & papers with associated background correspondence:
- Memorandum to Renton Committee on Preparation of Legislation
- Memo of Sub-Committee on Libraries to UGC 1971
- Report of Conference to form Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Dec 1971
- Working Party on the Constitution of the Society and Membership, 1972
- Law Publishing and Legal Scholarship - report by W L Twining, 1973
- Advisory Committee on Legal Education, 2nd Report, 1973
- Draft Annual Report of the General Committee, 1972-3
- Report of the General Council 1973-4
- Minutes of Joint Meeting of Law Commission and SPTL, May 1974
- SPTL Working Party on Law Publishing and Legal Scholarship:
Interim Report, 1975
2nd Interim Report, Aug 1976
Working Paper 1, Marketing your Manuscript to Commercial Publishers, Dec 1976
Working Paper 2, Law Journals, July 1977
Working Paper 3, Institutional Production of Educational and Research Materials, Dec 1977
Working Paper 4, Subsidisation of Scholarly Work, Jan 1978
Working Paper 5, New Methods and Techniques, Feb 1978
Final Report on Law Publishing and Legal Scholarship, 1977
- International Journal of Law Libraries, Vol 5 No 3, 1977
- Minutes of and correspondence re SPTL Publishing Committee, May 1978
- Reflections on SPTL by W L Twining, Oct 1978
- Report of Editorial Committee concerning future of Junior SPTL, 17 Nov [1978?])
- Minutes of SPTL Standing Committee on Law Publishing, 20 Dec 1978
- Proposed SPTL Law Series, 1979
- Correspondence with Law Commission, 1979
- President's Report to Council, 1978-1979
A.SPTL 10/8 1981-1983 Correspondence and papers of Prof Pettit
(Pts 1-2) (vice president to 1981; president 1982/3)
[SPTL 8] with enclosures, including agenda and minutes for Advisory Committee on Legal Education, 24 Mar - Nov 1983. Plus Minutes of Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, 20 Nov 1981 - 11 July 1983
A.SPTL 10/9 1971-1984 1) Minutes and agenda of Annual General
[SPTL 9] Meetings, Sept 1971 - Sept 1984
2) Annual Reports of Council, 1973-1984
A.SPTL 10/10 1982-1984 Conferences: programmes, background
[SPTL 10] papers, itineraries, participants, subjects to be discussed:
Edinburgh 19-21 Sept 1984
Bristol 20-24 Sept 1983
Leicester 15-18 Sept 1982
A.SPTL 11: CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF THE SPTL SUB-COMMITTEE
ON LIBRARIES (LATER SPTL LIBRARIES COMMITTEE), 1955-1995
1 box
access: pieces 1-3, 5-9 open
This class consists of files containing correspondence, minutes, agenda and reports on law library standards by the SPTL Library Sub-committee/Libraries Committee. Some files have been weeded. The file titles which were on the original folders are noted in inverted commas. For printed statements of minimum holdings for law libraries see A.SPTL 15. For the Honorary Secretary's papers relating to the Sub-committee 1973-1976 see A.SPTL 26/11.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 11/1 1955-1960 "Minimum library holdings"; correspondence, questionnaire and reports
A.SPTL 11/2 1962-1970 " "
A.SPTL 11/3 1971-1988 "SPTL Committee for Libraries minutes"
A.SPTL 11/4 1971-1990 "Correspondence general"
A.SPTL 11/5 1972 "Minimum standards - weeded 18/3/74"; papers concerning standards for multiple copies in law libraries
A.SPTL 11/6 1974-1987 "British Library Working Party on Library Provision for Law"; SPTL correspondence and response
A.SPTL 11/7 1977-1988 "Copyright"; SPTL submission of 1978, correspondence, papers and newspaper articles
A.SPTL 11/8 1979-1982 "Law library staffing"; questionnaire, correspondence and reports
A.SPTL 11/9: 1995 Consultative Group to the Libraries Committee: Report and statement of standards for university library provision in England and Wales [printed]
A.SPTL 12: CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO GENERAL
COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ANNUAL CONFERENCES, 1958-1971
1 folder
access: open
The class consists of one file containing correspondence, minutes and papers relating to meetings and conferences, particularly the Durham conference in 1969. For earlier papers relating to meetings see A.SPTL 4-5. For later papers see A.SPTL 10, A.SPTL 16, A.SPTL 22 and A.SPTL 26/1.
A.SPTL 13: JOURNAL OF THE SPTL; LATER LEGAL
STUDIES, 1924-1998
Quantity: 22 volumes, 1 box
Access: open
The Journal was first published in 1924. It gives minutes of AGMs and General Committee, and also lists new members, budget, papers read and publications. The Journal changed its format several times and its title in 1981. It was not published between 1939-1946 due to the war. From 1955 two journals were published, the first covering transactions of the Society, annual reports, papers read at AGMs and book reviews, and the second printed articles on legal education and reviews. From 1975 the number of issues per year was again reduced to one. From 1979 the editor was no longer obliged to publish reports of proceedings or minutes of meetings.
Minutes of the Sub-committee on establishment of a journal are in A.SPTL 1/4. The Honorary Secretary's papers from 1974-1977 concerning the journal are in A.SPTL 26/10. The Vice-President's papers from 1977-1979 concerning the journal are in A.SPTL 18/17.
Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, 1924-1980:
1924-31
1932-38
(not published during war)
1947-51
1952-56
1957-60
1961-63
1964-67
1968-71
1972-73
1974-75
1976-80
Index to volumes 1924-80
Legal Studies, 1981-1999
1981-2 vols 1-2
1983-4 vols 3-4
1985-6 vols 5-6
1987 vol 7
1988 vol 8
1989 vol 9
1990 vol 10
1991 vol 11
1992 vol 12
1993 vol 13
1994 vol 14 nos 1-3
1995 vol 15 nos 1-3
Special Issue
1996 vol 16 nos 1-3
1997 vol 17 nos 1-3]
1998 vol 18 no 1, 3-4
1999 vol 10 no 1
A.SPTL 14: DIRECTORY OF MEMBERS (PRINTED), 1953-1998
1 box, 8 pamphlets
access: open
This class appears to be a continuation of A.SPTL 6. Listings are given for Council, Honourary members, Emeritus members, ordinary members listed by area, and associate members. There is an index at the back of each directory. Directories for the years listed below are extant; some copies were presented by Professor James Read in 1996.
1953-1990 [supplements only for 1976 and 1978]
1992-1998
A.SPTL 15: PRINTED PAPERS RELATING TO SPTL INTERESTS,
1966-1993
4 folders; 2 pamphlets
access: open
Pieces 1-5 of this class originally comprised one box file. Piece 6 was passed to the Records of Legal Education Archives by Mr B. Hough.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 15/1 1966-1981 Copies of J F Wilson's (and later S B Marsh's) surveys of legal education in the UK
A.SPTL 15/2 29 Dec 1968 Association of American Law Schools - copy of amendment of articles of association
A.SPTL 15/3 1969-1993 Statement of Minimum Holdings for Law Libraries in England and Wales:-
1969; 1975; 1986/87; 1993
A.SPTL 15/4 1974 Australasian Universities Law Schools Association (AULSA): Report of the Committee on Australian Legal Education - Law Libraries in Australasian Universities
A.SPTL 15/5 1978 Statement of Minimum Holdings of Law of European Communities & of their Member Counties
A.SPTL 15/6 n.d. Patron membership of the SPTL: pamphlet describing procedure for subscribing to the Society as a Patron Member
A.SPTL 16: ANNUAL DINNERS AND CONFERENCES: PROGRAMMES
AND PRINTED PAPERS, 1968-1998
2 folders
access: open
For earlier papers relating to conferences see A.SPTL 4, A.SPTL 12 and A.SPTL 10.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 16/1 1968-1987 Annual dinners: programmes
A.SPTL 16/2 1968-1998 Annual conferences: programmes
A.SPTL 17: SPTL NEWSLETTER, LATER SPTL REPORTER,
1973-1999
Quantity: 1 box
Access: open
The Newsletter was produced from March 1973 - Winter 1990, when it was renamed the SPTL Reporter. Several are wanting; some were deposited by Professor James Read in 1996.
Date Serial No.
March 1973 1
June 1973 2
Nov 1973 3
Mar 1974 4
Dec 1974 5
May 1975 6
Jan 1976 7
May 1976 8
Feb 1977 9
July 1977 10
Dec 1977 11
Sept 1978 12
Mar 1979 13
Mar 1980 14
Feb 1981 15
June 1981 16
[new layout]
Winter 1981-82
Summer 1982
Winter 1982-83
Summer 1983
Winter 1983-84
Summer 1984
Winter 1984-85
Summer 1985
Winter 1985-86
Summer 1986
Winter 1986-87
Summer 1987
Winter 1987-88
Summer 1988
Winter 1988-89
Summer 1989
Winter 1989-90
SPTL Reporter 1990-1999
Issue Serial No.
Summer 1990 1
Winter 1991 2
Autumn 1991 3 [published late]
Spring 1992 4
Winter 1992 5
Spring 1993 6
Winter 1993 7
Spring 1994 8
Winter 1994 9
Spring 1995 10
Winter 1995 11
Spring 1996 12
Winter 1996 13
Spring 1997 14
Winter 1997 15
Spring 1999 18
A.SPTL 18: CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF WILLIAM TWINING
AS AN OFFICER OF THE SPTL, 1965-1985
3 boxes
access: open
William Twining, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at UCL 1983-1996, served on several committees of the SPTL, as well as holding office for the Society in the following capacities:
- Chairman, Working Party on Law Publishing, 1974-1977
- Vice-President 1977/78
- President 1979
- Chairman, Publishing Committee 1979-1982
The following material was deposited at IALS by Professor Twining in 1996, together with various collections of personal papers. As the records below were created and collected by him in his capacity as an SPTL officer, it has been included as a class of SPTL records. The material fills several gaps in existing SPTL holdings e.g. agenda of AGMs in the 1960s.
The SPTL papers deposited by Professor Twining had been maintained in no particular order, except for the files relating to his chairmanship of the Working Party on Law Publishing, which were grouped together in roughly chronological order. All the material has therefore been listed chronologically by the year of commencement of each office. For copies of the reports produced by the Working Party on Law Publishing see A.SPTL 10/7.
Ref Dates Description
Miscellaneous papers
A.SPTL 18/1 1965-1975 Notices, agenda and associated papers for AGMs, annual conferences and Young Members Group
A.SPTL 18/2 1966-1974 Correspondence and papers relating to Young Members Group
A.SPTL 18/3 1970-1979, Correspondence and papers concerning
(Pts 1-2) 1985 liaison with the Law Commission
A.SPTL 18/4 1973-1974 Correspondence concerning Advisory Committee on Legal Education
Papers as Chairman of the Working Party on Law Publishing
A.SPTL 18/5 n.d.; Background papers and notes on law book
1973-1974 publishing and legal scholarship
A.SPTL 18/6 1973-1976 General correspondence and working
(Pts 1-4) papers, including some minutes of meetings
A.SPTL 18/7 1974-1978 Correspondence concerning funding
(Pts 1-2)
A.SPTL 18/8 1974-1975 Responses by individuals and publishers to the working party's enquiries
A.SPTL 18/9 1975-1977 Minutes, agenda, papers and reports
A.SPTL 18/10 1975-1977 Responses to Interim Report (1975) and related correspondence
A.SPTL 18/11 1975-1977 Chairman's correspondence with Jenny
(Pts 1-4) Uglow, research assistant, plus copies of research documents, correspondence and papers
A.SPTL 18/12 1976-1977 Chairman's correspondence with Manchester University Press
A.SPTL 18/13 1977-1978 Chairman's correspondence concerning a National Student Law Journal [contains confidential material]
Papers as Vice-President
A.SPTL 18/14 1976-1978 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers
A.SPTL 18/15 1976-1979 Correspondence and papers concerning relations with the legal profession
A.SPTL 18/16 1977-1979 Correspondence and papers relating to future administration and funding of the Society
A.SPTL 18/17 1977-1979 Correspondence and papers relating to the Journal
A.SPTL 18/18 1977-1978 Papers concerning research ethics
A.SPTL 18/19 1977-1979 Correspondence and papers concerning the Society's relationship with the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools
Papers as President
A.SPTL 18/20 1978-1981 Correspondence and papers relating
(Pts 1-2) to meetings of Council and Executive Committee, and AGMs
A.SPTL 18/21 1978-1979 William Twining's presidential report to Council for 1978/79, with associated papers
A.SPTL 18/22 1978-1980 Correspondence and papers relating
(Pts 1-7) to conferences
Papers as Chairman of the Publishing Committee
A.SPTL 18/23 1978-1983 SPTL Publishing Committee - minutes,
(Pts 1-3) papers, reports, accounts and correspondence
Miscellaneous papers
A.SPTL 18/24 1979-1982 Miscellaneous papers relating to law schools and courses
A.SPTL 18/25 1979 Correspondence concerning recognition and exemptions [contains confidential material]
A.SPTL 18/26 1979-1980 Correspondence and papers concerning membership of the Society
A.SPTL 19: CORRESPONDENCE TO TRANSFER OF SPTL ARCHIVE
MATERIAL TO IALS, 1982-1994
2 folders
access: closed
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 19/1 1982-1991 Correspondence concerning receipt of SPTL archives at IALS
A.SPTL 19/2 1994 Miscellaneous correspondence of Honorary Secretary Peter Birks with the IALS Archivist
A.SPTL 20: COUNCIL OF THE SPTL: AGENDA, MINUTES AND
PAPERS, 1985-1996
1 box
access: pieces 1-4 open
Regular transfers of Council minutes to IALS appear to have commenced in 1991. In 1998 Mr Barry Hough, Assistant Secretary of the Society from 1985-1990, passed copy Council minutes for that period to the Records of Legal Education Archives. For earlier minutes and papers of Council see A.SPTL 1, A.SPTL 10, A.SPTL 18/20-21 and A.SPTL 26/8.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 20/1 1985 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/2 1986 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/3 1987 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/4 1988 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/5 1989 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/6 1990 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/7 1991 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/8 1992 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/9 1993 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/10 1994 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/11 1995 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 20/12 1996 Agenda, minutes and papers
A.SPTL 21: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: AGENDA, MINUTES AND
PAPERS, 1985-1996
8 folders
access: closed
The Executive Committee was established as a result of a General Committee resolution of 1973. The Committee was to consist of officers of the Society plus three members of Council; its function was to manage the SPTL's affairs between meetings. For Executive Committee minutes and papers from 1972-1984 see A.SPTL 10, A.SPTL 18/20 and A.SPTL 26/7. Regular transfers of Committee minutes to IALS commenced in 1995. In 1998 Mr Barry Hough, Assistant Secretary of the Society from 1985-1990, passed copy Committee minutes for that period to the Records of Legal Education Archives. There is therefore a gap in the class run from 1991-1994; copies of minutes of the Committee for this period may, however, be found in Council minutes at A.SPTL 30.
A.SPTL 22: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS: AGENDA, MINUTES
AND PAPERS, 1985-1990, 1993-1996
1 folder
access: closed
For earlier minutes and papers see A.SPTL 4, A.SPTL 10, A.SPTL 18/1 and A.SPTL 26/1. Papers for 1985-1990 were passed to the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1998 by Mr Barry Hough.
A.SPTL 23: PRINTED PROGRAMMES OF ANNUAL ACTIVITIES,
1993-1995
1 folder
access: open
A.SPTL 24: COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP LISTS, 1994-1995
1 folder
access: closed
A.SPTL 25: SPTL PUBLICATIONS, 1983-1996
3 volumes
access: open
The SPTL is increasingly involved in the publication of material dealing with current areas of debate in legal education. Most such material appears in Legal Studies; however some special publications have been put together under the SPTL's auspices, including the following:-
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 25/1 1996 Peter Birks (ed), What are Law Schools For?, Oxford University Press, 1996
A.SPTL 25/2 1983 Raymond Cocks, Foundations of the Modern Bar, SPTL Book Series, Sweet & Maxwell, 1983
A.SPTL 25/3 1983 Jeremy Cooper, Public Legal Services, SPTL Book Series, Sweet & Maxwell, 1983
A.SPTL 26: CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF JAMES S READ
AS AN OFFICER AND MEMBER OF THE SPTL, 1963-1986
1 box
access: open
Professor James Read was Honorary Secretary of the Society from 1972-1975. The records in this class, which primarily comprise papers relating to his activities as Honorary Secretary, were transferred to the Records of Legal Education Archives by Professor Read in 1996, together with some other papers, copies of SPTL and other publications and information copies of papers received as an SPTL member. Some of the latter papers duplicate others already in the Archives and were destroyed; others (such as copies of SPTL publications) filled gaps in existing holdings and have therefore been placed in the appropriate classes.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 26/1 1965-1986 Agenda, minutes and papers (annotated) of annual general meetings and annual conferences
A.SPTL 26/2 1966-1980 Annotated papers relating to the SPTL's Law Reform Committees and relations with the Law Commission
A.SPTL 26/3 1967-1980 Correspondence and papers relating to amendment of the Rules of the Society. Includes papers of the working party on amendment of the Constitution
A.SPTL 26/4 1968-1971 Copies of papers relating to the SPTL submission to the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Legal Education concerning the Ormrod Report
A.SPTL 26/5 1972-1981 Honorary Secretary's copies of SPTL reports
A.SPTL 26/6 1972-1975 Honorary Secretary's miscellaneous correspondence, chronologically arranged
A.SPTL 26/7 1972-1980 Minutes of meetings of Executive Committee, with Honorary Secretary's related correspondence
A.SPTL 26/8 1972-1980 Minutes, agenda and papers of Council,
(Pts 1-2) with Honorary Secretary's annotations and related correspondence
A.SPTL 26/9 1973 Honorary Secretary's correspondence and papers concerning the SPTL's involvement with the Advisory Committee on Legal Education
A.SPTL 26/10 1974-1977 Honorary Secretary's correspondence concerning publication of the Journal, including reports of Editorial Committee
A.SPTL 26/11 1973-1976 Honorary Secretary's correspondence and papers relating to the Working Party on Law Publishing and the Sub-Committee on Libraries
A.SPTL 26/12 1977 Professor Read's copy papers relating to the SPTL submission to the Royal Commission on Legal Services
A.SPTL 27: ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE SPTL AND THE LAW
COMMISSION: MINUTES AND PAPERS, 1986-1990
1 folder
access: closed
Meetings between the Law Commission and the SPTL were a regular occurrence. The papers in this class were transferred to the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1998 by Mr Barry Hough. For earlier papers relating to meetings with the Law Commission see A.SPTL 10/3, A.SPTL 10/7, A.SPTL 18/3 and A.SPTL 26/2.
A.SPTL 28: ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE SPTL AND THE LORD
CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT (LCD): MINUTES AND PAPERS, 1988-1989
1 folder
access: closed
The first of these meetings was held in 1988; they were intended as a regular series of meetings to discuss the LCD's concerns relating to the structure of the legal process and the wotrkings of its administrative machinery; the procedure of the courts and the substantive law itself. The papers in this class were transferred to the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1998 by Mr Barry Hough.
A.SPTL 29: SPTL RESPONSES TO PARTICULAR ISSUES, 1983-1995
7 folders
access: pieces 1-4 open
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 29/1 1983-1984 SPTL evidence to Legal Aid Committee - submission and related correspondence
A.SPTL 29/2 1984 University of Nottingham, Dept of Law: paper regarding contracts and conveyancing of property, with related correspondence
A.SPTL 29/3 1988 Memorandum on the Copyright, Designs and Patents Bill 1988, submitted by the Special Committee on Libraries of the SPTL, with related correspondence
A.SPTL 29/4 1988 SPTL response to the consultation paper circulated by the University Grants Council in relation to the Research Selectivity Exercise 1989
A.SPTL 29/5 1990 Draft SPTL report on Professional Legal Education
A.SPTL 29/6 1994-1995 Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct: the SPTL response (with related letter)
A.SPTL 29/7 1995 Bar Council/Council of Legal Education Validation Steering Committee Consultation Paper: SPTL comments (with covering letter)
A.SPTL 30: SPTL
RESEARCH SUB COMMITTEE PAPERS, 2003
1 file
access:
open 10 years after the last date on file
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: these papers were transferred by Sally Thomson, Administrative Secretary, Society of Legal Scholars.
Related material: Minutes for this committee may also be found in the Executive or Council Committee meetings.
Ref Dates Description
SPTL30/1 SLS Research sub-committee 18 Sept 2003 2003 Sep 18 1 item Agenda, supporting documents and minutes
A.SPTL 31:
ANNUAL CONFERENCE ADVISORY SUB-COMMITTEE (ACAS), 2003-2004
3 files
access: open after 10 years
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 32: IALS FILES RELATING TO SPTL, 1952 - 1989
10 files
access: open after 10 years
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 33:
NICK WIKELEY'S PAPERS AS HONORARY SECRETARY OF SPTL/SLS, 1998-2006
38 files
access:
open after 10 years except where indicated
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 34:
RECORDS OF PETER NIVEN, ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY OF SPTL, July 1996-2001
9 boxes
access:
open 10 years after the last date on file
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 35:
SPTL SEMINARS, 1996-1999
4 items
access: open after 10 years
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 36:
RECEPTIONS AND EVENTS, 2003-2005
3 folders
access: open
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 37: PRESS CUTTINGS / PRESS RELEASE, 2001-2005
7 folders
access: open
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
Ref Dates Description
A.SPTL 38:
FINANCIAL RECORDS, 2001
1 item
access: open
The papers in this class cover specific responses and submissions concerning particular issues by the SPTL.
INDEX TO SPTL RECORDS
Advisory Committee on Legal Education A.SPTL 10/7-8; A.SPTL 18/4; A.SPTL 26/9
Annual meetings A.SPTL 1/4; A.SPTL 4; A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/9; A.SPTL 18/1; A.SPTL 22; A.SPTL 26/1
Annual dinners A.SPTL 16
Annual Report A.SPTL 10/1-3; see also A.SPTL 13
Anson, William Reynall A.SPTL 5
Archives of the Society A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 19/1; A.SPTL 19
Articled clerks A.SPTL 3/4; A.SPTL 1/3
Association of American Law schools A.SPTL 15/2
Association of Teachers of Law A.SPTL 3/1
Atkin, James Richard, Lord Atkin A.SPTL 3/10
Australian Universities Law Schools Association A.SPTL 15/4
Bar Council see General Council of the Bar
Birks, Peter Brian Herrenden A.SPTL 19/2; A.SPTL 25/1
British Library Working Party on Library Provision for Law A.SPTL 11/6
Casebooks committee A.SPTL 1/3-4
Cocks, Raymond A.SPTL 25/2
Committees A.SPTL 24 see also Council, Executive Committee, General Committee, Legal education committees, Special committees, Standing committees, Sub-committees and under names of individual committee
Committee of Heads of University Law Schools A.SPTL 10/1; A.SPTL 10/8; A.SPTL 18/19
Commonwealth Legal Education Association A.SPTL 10/7
Conferences A.SPTL 4; A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/10; A.SPTL 12; A.SPTL 16/2; A.SPTL 18/1; A.SPTL 26/1
Constitution A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 26/3
Cooper, Jeremy A.SPTL 25/3
Correspondence A.SPTL 2-3; A.SPTL 10-12; A.SPTL 18; A.SPTL 19; A.SPTL 26/6
Council of the Society A.SPTL 1/1-2; A.SPTL 1/6; A.SPTL 10; A.SPTL 18/20-21; A.SPTL 20; A.SPTL 26/8
Council of Legal Education A.SPTL 25/3
Curricula, Standing Committee on A.SPTL 1/4
Dicey, Albert Venn A.SPTL 5
Directory of members A.SPTL 14
Dowdall, Harold Chaloner A.SPTL 5
Eastwood, Reginal Allen A.SPTL 3/9
Editorial Committee A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 26/10
Educational Interchange Council A.SPTL 3/15
Executive Committee A.SPTL 10; A.SPTL 18/20; A.SPTL 21; A.SPTL 26/7
Financial records A.SPTL 8-9
General Committee A.SPTL 1/3-6; A.SPTL 3/3; A.SPTL 10; A.SPTL 12
General Council of the Bar A.SPTL 29/7
Goudy, Henry A.SPTL 5
Grodecki, J K A.SPTL 10/4
Hazel, Alfred Ernest William A.SPTL 5
Holdsworth, Willaam Searle A.SPTL 5
Holland, Mrs A.SPTL 3/6
Honorary Secretary A.SPTL 10/2; A.SPTL 19/6; A.SPTL 26
Hough, Barry A.SPTL 15; A.SPTL 20-22; A.SPTL 27-28
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 19/1; A.SPTL 19/6
Institute of Legal Research A.SPTL 3/12
Jennings, William Ivor A.SPTL 3/12
Journal of the SPTL A.SPTL 1/4; A.SPTL 13; A.SPTL 18/17; A.SPTL 26/10
Junior SPTL A.SPTL 10/7
Lambert, Edouard A.SPTL 5
Law Commission A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 18/3; A.SPTL 26/2; A.SPTL 27
Law faculties & schools A.SPTL 3/8, A.SPTL 3/14
Law libraries see Libraries Committee; Minimum library holdings
Law publishing A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 18/5-13; A.SPTL 18/23; A.SPTL 26/11
Law Reform Committee A.SPTL 26/2
Law schools see Australian Universities Law Schools Association; Committee of Heads of University Law Schools
Law teachers A.SPTL 3/1, A.SPTL 3/9
Lectures A.SPTL 1/4; A.SPTL 3/5
Legal Aid Committee A.SPTL 29/1
Legal Education A.SPTL 15/1; A.SPTL 15/4 see also Advisory Committee on Legal Education; Legal Education Committee; Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education
Legal Education Committee (Atkin Committee) A.SPTL 3/10
Legal Studies A.SPTL 13
Libraries Committee A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 11; A.SPTL 26/11; A.SPTL 29/3
Life insurance A.SPTL 1/4
Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct A.SPTL 29/6
Lord Chancellor's Committee on Legal Education A.SPTL 26/4
Lord Chancellor's Department A.SPTL 28
Manchester University Press A.SPTL 18/12
Marsh, S B A.SPTL 15/1
Medieval law lectureship A.SPTL 3/5
Meetings of Society A.SPTL 3/11; A.SPTL 4; A.SPTL 12; A.SPTL 20-22
Membership of Society A.SPTL 6-7; A.SPTL 9; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 14; A.SPTL 15/6; A.SPTL 18/26
Minimum library holdings A.SPTL 11; A.SPTL 15/3; A.SPTL 15/5; A.SPTL 26/11
Minute books A.SPTL 1
Name of Society A.SPTL 1/4
National Student Law Journal A.SPTL 18/13
Newsletter A.SPTL 17
Ormrod Committee A.SPTL 26/4
Patron membership A.SPTL 15/6
Pettit, Philip H A.SPTL 10/8
Pillet, A A.SPTL 5
Presidents of Society A.SPTL 10/4; A.SPTL 10/7-8; A.SPTL 18/20-22
Prizes A.SPTL 3/7
Professional Legal Education A.SPTL 29/7
Programmes of activities A.SPTL 23
Publishing Committee A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 18/23
Read, James S A.SPTL 26
Register of members A.SPTL 6-7; A.SPTL 14
Renton Committee on Preparation of Legislation A.SPTL 10/7
Research co-ordination, sub-committee on A.SPTL 1/4
Research Selectivity Exercise A.SPTL 29/4
Royal Commission on Legal Services A.SPTL 26/12
Rules of the Society A.SPTL 1/4; A.SPTL 7; A.SPTL 10/1; A.SPTL 26/3
Secretary of the Society A.SPTL 10/2
Special committees:
Compilation of casebooks A.SPTL 1/3-4
Education of the articled clerk A.SPTL 1/3
Lectureship on Medieval English A.SPTL 1/4
Libraries A.SPTL 19/4
SPTL Newsletter A.SPTL 17
SPTL Reporter A.SPTL 17
SPTL Young Members Group A.SPTL 18/1-2
Standing committees:
Curricula A.SPTL 1/4
Law publishing A.SPTL 10/7
Stein, Peter Gonville A.SPTL 10/4
Sub-committees:
Amendment of rules A.SPTL 1/4
Annual meetings A.SPTL 1/4
Change of name A.SPTL 1/4
Co-ordination of research A.SPTL 1/4
Issue of a journal A.SPTL 1/4
Libraries A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 11; A.SPTL 26/11
Life insurance A.SPTL 1/4
Year Book study A.SPTL 1/4
Vocational Year A.SPTL 10/1
Swiney Prize A.SPTL 3/7; A.SPTL 3/13
Twining, William L A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 18
Uglow, Jenny A.SPTL 18/11
University Grants Committee/Council A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 29/4
Validation Steering Committee of the Bar Council/Council of Legal Education A.SPTL 29/7
Vice presidents of Society A.SPTL 10/8; A.SPTL 18/14-19
Vocational year study A.SPTL 10/1
Wilson, J F A.SPTL 15/1
Working parties:-
Constitution and membership of Society A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7
Law publishing A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 10/7; A.SPTL 18/5-13; A.SPTL 26/11
Year Book A.SPTL 3/5; A.SPTL 1/4
Young Members Group A.SPTL 10/3; A.SPTL 18/1-2
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