Area of law: Commercial and common law

Considering the introduction of a consumer class actions regime

The project will consider the merits of an arbitration system that facilitates trust disputes and consider how such a system might be designed.

This project forms part of the Law Commission’s 14th Programme of Law Reform.

Reviewing the law relating to liability for defective products.

We published a scoping paper on decentralised autonomous organisations (“DAOs”) on 11 July 2024, which considers how DAOs can be characterised and identifies current issues around DAOs to inform any future law reform or innovations.   

We published our final report, which includes our law reform recommendations to Government, on 28 June 2023. On 30 July 2024 we published a supplemental report and draft Bill on digital assets as personal property.

Reviewing how private international law operates in the context of electronic trade documents and digital assets.

Helping museums to continue to share rich heritage by managing their collections more effectively. This project has not started yet.

The Arbitration Bill, based closely on our recommendations, was introduced into Parliament on 21 November 2023. See the parliament website for further details.