Scope and Contents Letters from Labour front bench spokesmen relating to meetings with senior civil servants before the election to discuss the machinery of a change in Government. Correspondents include: Josephine Richardson [Labour spokesperson on women’s rights]; John Prescott [transport spokesman]; [Joseph] Kevin McNamara [Northern Ireland spokesman]; [Stephen] Barry Jones [spokesman on Wales] on implementing Labour’s manifesto commitments on Welsh affairs (2); Mark Fisher [arts spokesman] (2); Jeremy...

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Briefings and background papers on the Family Law Reform Bill and Criminal Justice Bill, with draft of Labour’s charter for legal rights (the Freedom and Fairness campaign) and correspondence with John Morris [legal affairs spokesman] and the Family Courts Campaign, on family law reform.

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Correspondence, memoranda and cuttings on the White Paper on Criminal Justice, reform of the justice system and Labour’s charter for legal rights (the Freedom and Fairness campaign). Correspondents include John Morris [legal affairs spokesman].

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Includes: rough notes of meetings with Shadow Cabinet members, John Morris and John Fraser [legal affairs spokesmen], and Sir [William] Elwyn Jones; memoranda from Lord Irvine [legal and home affairs spokesman], Arthur Davidson, John Morris and Ian Gatt.