Legal procedure
Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 05 Dec 1910
Summons to Hugh Franklin to appear at the Bow Street Police Court [London] to answer the complaint of WSC that Franklin be required to find sureties for his good behaviour towards WSC. Typescript.
(Untitled), 28 Nov 1910
Letter from Hugh Franklin (Bow Street Police Station [London]) to WSC asking him to give evidence when Franklin answers the charge of having assaulted WSC.
(Untitled), [Dec 1910]
Depositon by WSC describing the assault on him on a train returning from a meeting in Bradford [Yorkshire] by Hugh Franklin, a supporter of women's suffrage. Mentions other disturbances in which Franklin was involved in 1910. Typescript.
(Untitled), 11 May 1908
Copy of a letter from [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] (22 St James' Place [London]) to WSC [concerning WSC's libel action against the Manchester Guardian] in which he expresses surprise that WSC has taken his and J L Garvin's criticisms personally, assures him that he has not been annoyed by WSC's criticisms of himself in Parliament and invites him to take a walk with him to "thrash the matter out". Top copy at CHAR 1/72/74. See also CHAR 28/117/26.
(Untitled), 14 May 1908
Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private in which he assures him that he does not believe that Northcliffe was involved in libellous statements made by the Manchester Courier, discusses the libel cases and recommends that he should talk to F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead]. See also CHAR 1/72/75-76.
(Untitled), 15 May 1908
Copy of a letter from [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he says that he does not intend to discuss [WSC's action against] the Manchester Courier further and that he would like to avoid talking to F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead] as Smith is acting against him.
(Untitled), 24 Jun 1908
Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] informing him that his libel action against the Manchester Courier has been settled.
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1916
Letter from Sir George Lewis (Lewis and Lewis, Ely Place, Holborn [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he says that he has had an interview with the solicitors acting for George Cornwallis-West over his bankruptcy and is going to discover whether the latter intends to cite Lady Randolph as a reason for his financial difficulties.
(Untitled), 1914
Public Record Office certified copy of the deed poll in which Lady Randolph Churchill renounced her claim to the surname Cornwallis West and reverted to using Lady Randolph Churchill.
(Untitled), 06 Apr 1914
Extract from the Registry of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice certifying the dissolution of the marriage between Lady Randolph Churchill and George Cornwallis West on grounds of adultery and desertion on the part of the latter.
(Untitled), 18 Jun 1914
Transcript of the judgement reached in the High Court of Justice Chancery Division before Mr Justice Sargant between Lady Randolph Churchill, WSC and John S Churchill concerning the position of Lady Randolph Churchill under the terms of the will of Lord Randolph Churchill in the event of her remarrying. Typescript.
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1913
Letter from F E [Smith, later Lord Birkenhead](70 Eccleston Square [London]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that her case [her divorce from George Cornwallis West] would not have attracted attention but for public interest in her personality and wishes her success with her play ["The Bill"].
(Untitled), 29 Jun 1906
Letter from Lumley & Lumley (Solicitors) to WSC, enclosing accounts for professional services, 1898-1906: Preparation of Wills, 1898 and 1902, £2 2s, Norwich Union life assurance policy, 1899-1905, £16 2s 2d, Loan from Norwich Union, 1901-1903, £31 12s 8d, Garron Towers Estate, 1903-1905, £5 11s 6d, purchase of 12 Bolton Street, 1905-1906, £24 17s 6d, and Dunlop Tyre Co., Ltd., 1906, £15 15s.
(Untitled), [Apr 1924]
Account from Lumley & Lumley for legal services, Mar 1923- Mar 1924.
(Untitled), 08 Feb 1924
Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on libellous remarks about Lord Randolph Churchill in "Uncensored Recollections", advising him that he could not take legal action for defamation, as it was only open to the person defamed to take action.
(Untitled), May 1924
Account from Nicholl, Manisty & Co, £392 5s 9d, for legal services, including action of Douglas v. The Morning Post, in which WSC gave evidence on behalf of the defendants.
(Untitled), 21 May 1924
Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on his Children's Settlement.
(Untitled), 23 May 1924
Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on his Children's Settlement.
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1924
Letter from WSC to Nicholl, Manisty & Co., on breach of copyright of article by WSC in a Canadian newspaper [carbon].
(Untitled), 18 Nov 1924
Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on his Children's Settlement.
(Untitled), 25 Nov 1924
Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on Lady Randolph Churchill's American Settlement.
(Untitled), 29 Dec 1924
Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on assignment of royalties from The Life of Lord Randolph Churchill and The World Crisis, to his daughter, Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames].
(Untitled), [1924]
Account from Lumley & Lumley for legal services, Apr-Dec 1924, showing balance in WSC's favour of £169 13s 7d.
(Untitled), 25 Mar 1924
Letter from Kenneth Brown, Baker, Baker, Solicitors, to WSC, on writ issued to Tillotsons Newspapers Ltd., proprietors of The Bolton Evening News, for alleged libel of WSC.
(Untitled), 10 Apr 1924
Letter from Kenneth Brown, Baker, Baker, Solicitors, to WSC, enclosing printed statement of his claim v. Tillotsons Newspapers, for comments in the Bolton Evening News, implying that he was a "cruel, exacting, selfish and intolerant person".