| Description | File containing legal documents of primarily cases and counsel opinions provided to the hospital in response to queries in relation to governance and organisational matters. Many matters arise due in part to the confines of the hospital's operating charter, bye-laws and regulations. Includes opinions relating to: the process of a governor's resignation (January 1870, 15 March 1881); the legal capacity within the confines of the existing charter for a patient to depart the hospital as part of an 'out patient' payment scheme (£10 per annum) for a defined period (26 November 1879, 27 November 1879); a cap on salaries of staff and other matters (5 March 1884); appointment of life governors as part of bequest request (22 September 1904); vacancy on the managing committee due to death (2 February 1906); charging patients with means to pay (18 February 1907); legal opinion regarding assemblies of the governors in the context of managing hospital property, specifically, to build a pavilion (27 December 1911); discovery of patient 'means' after death (26 February 1919); and resignation due to conflict of interest (13 December 1949). Also includes letters from the hospital's solicitors, Middleton and Son and latterly, A & L Goodbody. |