7 boxes
This class comprises a series of files, listed in alphabetical order, maintained by the CLEA Secretary, who passed them to the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1996. The following list gives the file title as it appeared on the original folders (underlined), covering dates and a brief description of contents. Accounts records appear primarily in the Commonwealth Foundation file and in Executive Committee minutes file. Minutes and agenda of committees will be found in the relevant correspondence file. Some ephemeral material and information copies of papers readily available elsewhere have been destroyed.
Ref Dates Description
A.CLEA 1/1 1987 Accounts; mainly relating to access projects. File marked confidential
A.CLEA 1/2 1979-1988 Advisory Panel; minutes, agenda, papers and correspondence concerning meetings of the Advisory Panel and the Executive Committee, plus some General Meetings, seminars, working parties and statements of financial affairs (included as appendices to minutes)
A.CLEA 1/3 1989 African law faculty problems; circular to African law schools seeking their response to a suggested survey on resources. With replies
A.CLEA 1/4 1984-1986 Access to legal education; correspondence and papers concerning CLEA's project on access to legal education and the legal profession
A.CLEA 1/5 1986-1989 British Council; correspondence including overseas visitors, discussions and comments on courses and working parties, and information papers from BC's Education Information Service and Law Advisory Committee
A.CLEA 1/6 1985-1986 Commonwealth Law Teaching Clinic; correspondence and papers on a law teaching workshop co-sponsored with Warwick University, 1986
A.CLEA 1/7 1986-1987 Commonwealth Institute - CILET (Commonwealth Institute for Legal Education and Training, Ontario); correspondence with CILET on projects partly sponsored by CLEA
A.CLEA 1/8 1976-1984 Commonwealth Lawyers' Association; correspondence with the Commonwealth Legal Bureau and other Commonwealth organisations on forming an association
A.CLEA 1/9 1983-1984 Commonwealth Magistrates' Association; agenda, minutes and papers of meetings on legal training attended by CLEA, with related correspondence
A.CLEA 1/10 1983 Community legal education; note by Chairman W Twining, plus a copy of his paper to the 1983 meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in Sri Lanka
A.CLEA 1/11 1976-1987 Continuing legal education; correspondence and papers on continuing legal education throughout the Commonwealth
A.CLEA 1/12 1987-1988 Council of Legal Education; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/13 1981-1989 Commonwealth Foundation; correspondence and submissions concerning funding, including financial statements, reports on CLEA activities and audited accounts
A.CLEA 1/14 1984-1989 Commonwealth Law Conference; papers and correspondence, especially concerning arrangements for mooting competitions
A.CLEA 1/15 1984-1989 Cumberland Lodge; letters concerning
(Pts 1-2) attendance and agenda topics for annual seminars for Commonwealth Law Teachers; programmes; lists of participants; related papers and correspondence and seminar papers and reports
A.CLEA 1/16 1975-1976 Executive Committee arrangements for meetings; papers and accounts circulated to Committee members, with some correspondence
A.CLEA 1/17 1971-1988 Executive Committee minutes; minutes, agenda and papers, including the report of a conference held in 1971 to discuss CLEA's formation. Some Advisory Panel minutes and accounts are also included
A.CLEA 1/18 1984 Funding of Legal Research; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/19 1977-1986 General Meeting; notices of general meetings of CLEA, minutes, related correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 1/20 1986-1988 Human Rights; Part 1: correspondence and
(Pts 1-2) papers relating to a seminar on promotion of human rights and the Commonwealth
Part 2: correspondence and papers relating to an initiative for human rights - meeting at the Royal Commonwealth Society, 1988
A.CLEA 1/21 1975-1985 International Third World Legal Studies Association; correspondence with the International Legal Center on legal education in the third world, including workshops, meetings, papers
A.CLEA 1/22 1985-1987 Training of judicial officers; correspondence and papers, including summaries of situation overseas, plans for training courses and workshops and Commonwealth Magistrates Association Training Committee meetings and agenda
A.CLEA 1/23 1988-1991 Distance learning; correspondence and papers (possibly part 2 to A.CLEA 1/22)
A.CLEA 1/24 1986-1988 Law Book Project; correspondence and papers on various projects on information resources in the Commonwealth
A.CLEA 1/25 1981-1983 Law teaching in a second language; correspondence and articles (includes confidential reports)
A.CLEA 1/26 1985-1987 Law Foundations; correspondence relating to a proposed project
A.CLEA 1/27 1981-1988 Legal Literature; correspondence (Pts 1-2)
A.CLEA 1/28 1974-1985 Miscellaneous; letters concerning policy, appointment of officers, seminar papers, descriptive papers on CLEA's functions
A.CLEA 1/29 1974-1985 Membership; Policy and analyses of membership
A.CLEA 1/30 1985-1988 Mooting competition; correspondence, procedure, rules, programmes, reports (one marked confidential), photographs
A.CLEA 1/31 1983 Newsletter; circular asking for subscriptions
A.CLEA 1/32 1980-1983 Overseas students; statistics and analyses of overseas law students at UK universities
[Overseas legal education]:-
A.CLEA 1/33 1976-1988 Australasia; [includes New Zealand, but see also A.CLEA 1/46]; articles, correspondence, prospecti, syllabi etc
A.CLEA 1/34 1975 Bangladesh; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/35 1988 Botswana; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/36 1983-1986 Canada; reports, articles, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/37 1981-1985 Cayman Islands; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/38 1981-1984 Caribbean law schools; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/39 1974-1985 Hong Kong; reports and correspondence. Contains some confidential material
A.CLEA 1/40 1975-1987 India; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/41 1974-1987 Kenya; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/42 1985 Lesotho; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/43 1977-1984 Malaysia; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/44 1982-1984 Malta; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/45 1984-1987 Mauritius; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/46 1986 New Zealand; correspondence [see also A.CLEA 1/33]
A.CLEA 1/47 1974-1988 Nigeria; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/48 1975-1984 Papua New Guinea; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/49 1985-1986 South Africa; copies of articles concerning law and apartheid, notes, statutes
A.CLEA 1/50 1974-1987 Sri Lanka; reports, articles, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/51 1987-1988 Tanzania; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/52 1974-1988 Uganda; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/53 1977-1984 USA; reports, articles, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/54 1975-1985 Zambia; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/55 1985-1986 Zimbabwe; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/56 1983-1984 Paralegals; correspondence relating to training
A.CLEA 1/57 1983-1986 Postgraduate level courses taught; correspondence. Includes papers concerning the CLEA/Cwealth Secretariat Commonwealth Directory of Post-Graduate Legal Programmes; drafts, press cuttings, lists of contributors
A.CLEA 1/58 1984 Post-graduate students; papers and correspondence relating to CLEA's Directory of Postgraduate Courses in the Commonwealth
A.CLEA 1/59 1976-1984 Reciprocity and minimum standards; correspondence and information
A.CLEA 1/60 1987 Servicing the Legal System; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/61 1987-1988 SPTL; papers on impressions of speakers at conferences
A.CLEA 1/62 1980 Staff exchange schemes; financial aid schemes; collected material on postgraduate study in different countries, plus staff exchanges
A.CLEA 1/63 1984-1985 Teaching professional skills; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/64 1979-1987 Women in Law; articles, correspondence,
(Pts 1-2) papers, including material on CLEA's domestic violence survey, 1987
A.CLEA 1/65 1985 Women and the Law in the Commonwealth; articles, correspondence, background papers for CLEA brochure
A.CLEA 1/66 1986-1987 Women and violence; bibliography, background papers, papers relating to conferences, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/67 1987-1988 Working party on overseas students problems; minutes, agenda, correspondence, background paper, surveys (CLEA was represented on the working party)