The Mental Capacity Act aims to protect people who lack mental capacity but need to be deprived of liberty in order to receive appropriate care and treatment in hospitals and care homes. But the safeguards are not meaningful for disabled and older people and their families, local councils and the NHS are struggling to meet … Read more >
The Mental Capacity Act aims to protect people who lack mental capacity but need to be deprived of liberty in order to receive appropriate care and treatment in hospitals and care homes. But the safeguards are not meaningful for disabled and older people and their families, local councils and the NHS are struggling to meet … Read more >
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Tim Spencer-Lane, the lead lawyer on our review of the regulation of health and social care professionals, has been recognised by the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. His paper, Safeguarding the public by regulating health and social care professionals: lessons from Mid-Staffordshire and the Law Commission review, was Highly Commended in the awards. … Read more >
Today we are publishing the first consultation in our project to create a New Sentencing Code for England and Wales. The law on sentencing affects all criminal cases, and is applied in hundreds of thousands of trials and at thousands of appeals each year. But it lacks coherence and clarity: it is spread across many statutes, … Read more >
In our latest report, we recommend reforms to the common law offences of public nuisance and outraging public decency. Public nuisance traditionally dealt with environmental nuisance such as noise, smells and obstruction, but its focus has shifted to more general forms of public misbehaviour, bringing a wider range of potential offenders into its scope. Outraging … Read more >
What happens to your gift voucher or the deposit you’ve paid when a retailer goes bust? What happens if your Christmas savings scheme collapses? Under existing law, your money is unlikely to be protected and you may not get it back. In a consultation opening today, the Law Commission of England and Wales asks whether … Read more >
What happens to your gift voucher or the deposit you’ve paid when a retailer goes bust? And what if your Christmas savings scheme collapses? Under existing law, your money is unlikely to be protected and you may not get it back. In our latest consultation we ask whether greater protection is needed for consumers who … Read more >
An Act from 1979 allowing referendums for a Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly is among legislation being recommended for repeal by the Law Commissions. In a report published today the Law Commission for England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission propose clearing away more than 200 old laws that are cluttering up the statute … Read more >
An Act from 1979 allowing referendums for a Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly is among legislation being recommended for repeal by the Law Commissions. In a report published today the Law Commission for England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission propose clearing away more than 200 old laws that are cluttering up the statute … Read more >