Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General. Legal Services Branch

Zone d'identification

Type d'entité

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Forme autorisée du nom

Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General. Legal Services Branch

forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom

    Forme(s) du nom normalisée(s) selon d'autres conventions

    • Legal Services Branch

    Autre(s) forme(s) du nom

    • Ontario. Common Legal Services

    • Ontario. Seconded Legal Services Branch

    • Ontario. Business Advisory Branch

    Numéro d'immatriculation des collectivités

    Zone de description

    Dates d’existence

    1973-2003

    Historique

    The Legal Services Branch was established in 1973 as the Common Legal Services Division of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. This Division was administered by an Assistant Deputy Attorney General from 1973 until 1979. The Division was also given responsibility over the Official Guardian's Branch and the Public Trustee's Branch in 1975, both of which were previously attached to the Crown Law Office.

    In 1979, Common Legal Services lost its divisional status and was placed as a separate branch, along with the Official Guardian's Branch and the Public Trustee's Branch, within the Civil Law Division. With this change, administration of Common Legal Services was taken over by a director, reporting to the Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Civil Law Division. The name remained Common Legal Services until 1984, when it was changed to the Legal Services Branch. Since then, the name of the branch has changed twice: in 1992 it was changed to the Seconded Legal Services Branch, and then in 1995, it was renamed the Business Advisory Branch. In 1997, the Civil Law Division was abolished and the functions and responsibilities of the Business Advisory Branch were transferred to the Public Law and Policy Division.

    By 2000, Seconded Legal Services had been re-created as a branch within a newly formed Legal Services Division.

    Lieux

    Statut légal

    Fonctions et activités

    The Legal Services Branch provided lawyers and coordinated general legal advice to the ministries and certain agencies, boards and commissions of the Ontario Government. The head of the Branch also functioned as the Chief Inquiry Officer under the Expropriations Act by appointing and providing liaison with provincial inquiry officers who hear public concerns on specific expropriation cases.

    Adresse

    Organisation interne/Généalogie

    Contexte général

    Zone des relations

    Entité associée

    Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General (1972-)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA72

    Type de relation

    hiérarchique

    Type de relation

    Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General contrôles Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General. Legal Services Branch

    Dates de la relation

    Description de la relation

    Zone des points d'accès

    Mots-clés - Sujets

    Mots-clés - Lieux

    Epithet

    Zone du contrôle

    Identifiant de notice d'autorité

    CA215

    Identifiant du service d'archives

    Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

    Statut

    Approved

    Niveau de détail

    Dates de production, de révision et de suppression

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

    Langue(s)

      Écriture(s)

        Sources

        Annual Reports of the Ministry of the Attorney General, 1974-1992

        KWIC Indexes, 1977-1997

        Ontario Government Telephone Directories, 1973-2003

        Info-Go website

        Ministry of the Attorney General Internet site

        Notes de maintenance

        Agency not found in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

        Archivist(s):
        R. Anger; Clarkson