Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department. It was founded in 1885 as the Lord Chancellor's Office, to give the Lord Chancellor a staff answerable to him. It increased greatly in powers after the Courts Act, 1971. In 2003 it was renamed the Department for Constituional Affairs. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.