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Home Introduction (Opens new window) Membership Seminars Publications Art Antiquity & Law Distance Learning and Intensive Courses Situations Vacant Links Contact Us		GOING ON THE RECORD:   THE PRIVATE ENTRUSTMENT OF HISTORIC MATERIAL INTO PUBLIC CUSTODY a seminar to be held in London on the afternoon of 9th November in association with Speechly Bircham LLP to reserve a place, click here Public record offices and other communal archives contain numerous family and corporate archives, together with collections of historic documents, photographs, works of art, local archaeology and cultural material at large.  Many items were deposited informally, in circumstances where their legal status was indeterminate even at the time of entrustment.  Others are of ancient origin, causing the true history of the entrustment, however clear at one time, to have become clouded by passing years and fading memories.    Such deposits can now give rise to issues that never occurred to the original depositor and depositary.  Some deposits may have been transacted on terms - such as "permanent loan" - which may have meant something to the original parties but are now rife with legal anomaly.  Questions of inheritance, taxation, copyright and even confidentiality or spiritual privacy may arise to confound the successors to the first parties.    There has never before been a systematic, thorough and authoritative examination of these matters, conducted by cultural administrators and lawyers who are practically versed in the problems.  This seminar aims to redress that omission. Speakers at the seminar will be: Paul Brough, Cultural Services Manager (Libraries & Historic Collections), Cornwall Council William Hancock, Partner, Speechly Bircham LLP Professor Norman Palmer, Barrister, 3 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn Alexander Carter-Silk, Partner and head of IP, Technology & Commercial, Speechly Bircham LLP Nicholas Tall, Speechly Bircham LLP The seminar will carry 3.5 hours Law Society CPD points.                         Send comments to webmaster@ial.uk.com © The Institute of Art and Law 1995-2008