- 5.
- Ffeil
- 1957.
Correspondence, memoranda and press cuttings concerning Edmund Davies's work as observer for the British Government at the trial at Cairo of four Britons accused of spying.
Correspondence, memoranda and press cuttings concerning Edmund Davies's work as observer for the British Government at the trial at Cairo of four Britons accused of spying.
Copy of Report of the Committee on Limitation of Actions in Cases of Personal Injury. Cmnd. 1829 (HMSO, 1962), which committee Edmund Davies chaired, and related correspondence, including a letter of thanks from the Lord Chancellor, 11 September 1962. There is also a copy of the House of Lords' Hansard, vol. ccclx, no 84, 1 May 1975, containing the text of Lord Edmund-Davies's maiden speech in the Lords during the second reading of the Limitation Bill, and related correspondence.
Typescript and manuscript of Edmund Davies's address to the jurors at Aylesbury, 20 January 1964, with related correspondence, some discussing the Departmental Committee on Juries.
Typescript transcript of 'summing up', 16-23 March 1964,
Typescript transcript of proceedings in the Court of Criminal Appeal, 8-20 July 1964,
Notebooks containing detailed notes made by Edmund Davies during the sitting of the Tribunal, 29 November 1966 - 28 April 1967.
Report of the Tribunal appointed to inquire into the Disaster at Aberfan on 21 October 1966 published on 3 August 1967.
Press cuttings relating to the publication of the report,
Typescript of report, dated 9 November 1972, submitted to the Lord Chancellor by Edmund Davies on the Welsh Language Act 1967 (see also no 22). [This report was under embargo until June 1998.]
Correspondence, February 1979 - September 1983, discussing the work of the Committee of Inquiry on the Police. The correspondents include Rt Hon Merlyn Rees, MP, the Home Secretary, 16 February 1979 (15/1).
A copy of The Law of Distress for Rent and Rates (1931) by Edmund Davies, bearing notes and additions by the author and additional extracts from The Solicitors' Journal, together with a letter, 17 November 1931, enclosing a review of the book.
Press cutting, 7 September 1980.
A copy of Rupert Furneaux, Guenther Podola (London, 1960) (see also no 6). The Podola case, 1959, was 'the first notable trial that Master Edmund-Davies presided over at the Old Bailey'.
Papers concerning 'The case of John McGranaghan: a study by Justice',
Papers concerning 'The case of John McGranaghan: a study by Justice', 1986.
Correspondence, papers and a large group of press cuttings concerning Edmund-Davies's selection as an observer for the British Government at the trial at Cairo of two Britons accused of spying (see also no 5).