Papers including correspondence, legal case papers, speeches and articles.

The material held at Churchill Archives Centre deals with Sir Dingle's career as a Liberal and then a Labour Member of Parliament, as well as with his distinguished position in the legal profession, particularly with regard to Commonwealth countries and with his literary skills.

Includes correspondence, legal papers, lectures, literary papers and later biographical material relating to Lauterpacht's collected papers and his biography, written by his son, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht.

(1) English: ‘Some considerations concerning episcopacie’, seventeenth century;
(2) Latin: ‘Chronologicæ demonstratio’, seventeenth century;
(3) English: brief notes on parts of the epistles to the Galatians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and the Revelation of St John, seventeenth century;
(4) Latin: divinity commonplace book, seventeenth century;
(5) moot cases, in legal French, 1641.

'Sketch of a plan for a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon laws etc.', unsigned.

'A readinge or declaracion of th' authorityes, libertyes, and offices of a forest, made uppon the statute called Carta de foresta by one Traherne de Lincoln's Inn'.

The work is divided into two parts. The first is 'The abridgement of forme of process befor the lords', together with 'The tabulating of summons'. The second is 'Ane abridgement of the most materiall acts of parliament selected according to the order of the alphabet, by Sir Andrew Gilmour, advocate, knight and baronett, 1668' and 'Abridgement of the Acts of Parliament in Criminals', by the same.

'The liberties, ffranchises and customes of the cittie of London'; this is followed by reports of cases heard by Sir Edward Coke.

'Certane practicques drawin furth of certane processe before ye lordis of the college of justice and sessione; and decretis of the same, collectit and sett furth be Sir Richard Maitland, of Lethingtoun, knyght, and of the senatoris of the said college'. The dates annexed to these entries all lie between 1550 and 1577.

Includes 'the generall practicall proceedings' of the court. The treatise begins 'To sette forth exactly the dignity of the high court of starre chamber would require the penne of a deep judgment ...'. The 'proceedings' begin 'All suites which frequent this courte are brought hither, either by some perticular person complayning, or else by the very vigilant eye of state ...'. A first draft of Kk.06.22, and in the same hand.

Letter from Lord James of Hereford, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to WSC, on appointment of Justices of the Peace in Oldham [Lancashire].

Letter from T Paynter Allen, secretary of the Marriage Law Reform Association (2 Dean's Yard, Westminster Abbey, [London]) to WSC claiming overwhelming support for the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill and offering to submit the present draft of the bill to WSC and the Solicitor-General "with a view to any possible common understanding as regards its details." Annotated in shorthand.

Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to [?the Free Trade Union] on Indian exports of indigo and the need for a revision of the patent laws. MS copy in the hand of Annette Anning.

Letter from T Paynter Allen, secretary of the Marriage Law Reform Association (2 Dean's Yard, Westminster Abbey), to Councillor J Harrop of Manchester claiming overwhelming support for the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill among parliamentary candidates and asking about the view of "the Liberal candidate for North-West Manchester" [WSC].

Letter from Ivan Levinstein (Hawkes Moor, Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, [Manchester]) to WSC offering to provide information on patents and describing the bad influence of patent lawyers on the President of the Board of Trade [Gerald Balfour].

Printed resolution by Ivan Levinstein on patent law amendment to be tabled at the autumnal meeting of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: letter from Ivan Levinstein on patent law reform.

Letter from William Clegg (Whirlow Green, Sheffield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC praising his performance as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies, in particular his speech on [martial law in] Natal, [South Africa], but criticising the Lord Chancellor's policy on the appointment of JPs and the government's attitude to the Trades Disputes Bill.

Letter from Lord Loreburn (8 Eaton Square, [London]) to WSC promising to look favourably on J Moore Bayley's claims to be a Justice of the Peace in Birmingham and suggesting his exclusion shows the influence of party politics on appointments to the Bench.

Letter from Lord Crewe (Colonial Office) to WSC stating that he will not interfere with the governor's discretion with respect to a murder case in Cyprus.

Letter from J A Webster (Board of Trade) to Edward Marsh enclosing a memorandum on the shipping laws to help him answer a letter from the Hull and District Junior Liberal Association [see CHAR 2/46/114]. Signed and annotated typescript.

Letter from Gilbert Smith, chairman of the Hull and District Junior Liberal Association (Paragon Chambers, Jameson Street, [Hull, Yorkshire]) to WSC reporting the complaint by Havelock Wilson that British seamen are suffering because the shipping laws governing the composition of crews are not being properly enforced and asking WSC whether Wilson has correctly represented his views on the subject. Signed typescript. 2 pieces.