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…Act 2015 361 Reform of Offences against the Person (HC 555) Pending 360 Patents, Trade Marks and Designs: Unjustified Threats Implemented Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 358 Simplification of…
Published: January 27, 2025
Offences against the person
Problem The main law in dealing with violent offences is the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. It forms the basis of over 26,000 prosecutions every year. In addition, the…
Published: November 3, 2015
Criminal records disclosure
…section 113A(6D) of the Police Act 1997 (the “list of non-filterable offences”) and include serious offences of violence, sexual offences and offences against children and vulnerable adults. What we did…
Published: February 1, 2017
Reform of the communications offences
…offences, made in the 2021 Modernising Communications Offences report. The majority of the recommended offences were implemented in the Online Safety Act 2023. These include offences of cyberflashing, encouraging or…
Published: July 21, 2021
Taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent
…the first place). This is particularly concerning when those images are “intimate” in nature, such as where the person is naked, engaging in a sexual act or when the image…
Published: July 7, 2022
Wills
…increasing clarity and certainty in the law. The final Report is accompanied by a draft Bill for a modern Wills Act, to replace the Wills Act 1837. Problem Wills are…
Published: October 5, 2023
Recommendations to modernise wills law to promote testamentary freedom
…Making it easier for a person’s wishes to be given effect: Currently, a will that does not comply with the formality requirements in the Wills Act 1837 is not valid…
Published: May 16, 2025
SLS Hale Lecture: The Future of Law Reform
…From the Board of Agriculture Act 1889, the Hill Farming Act 1946, various Agriculture Acts, to the more recent Agricultural Sector (Wales) Act 2014 and the Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023,…
Published: February 13, 2025
Simplification of the criminal law: kidnapping and related offences
…offence We also recommended changes to the offences under sections 1 and 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984. We recommend: the increase of the maximum sentences for these offences…
Published: November 20, 2014
Corporate criminal liability
…is a need for one or more general rules of attribution to cover offences generally. For offences of negligence, it should be possible to convict a corporation on the basis…
Published: June 10, 2022