Once we have submitted a final report, our project is completed. After this, our recommendations are discussed by Government before they are put before Parliament.
Our most recent completed projects are listed here but you can view all projects completed by the Law Commission between 1966 and 2024.
The Law Commission published a joint report with the Scottish Law Commission, outlining recommendations for legal reform around automated vehicles and how they could safely and responsibly be introduced on GB roads and public places. The Automated Vehicles Bill was laid before Parliament and the Scottish Parliament, and on May 2024 the Automated Vehicles (AV) Act received royal assent.
This project considered how the system of devolved tribunals in Wales could be improved. We published a consultation paper on 16 December 2020, and published our report on 9 December 2021.
The Law Commission published advice to Government on 25 November 2021, concluding that the current legal framework in England and Wales is clearly able to facilitate and support the use of smart legal contracts.
The Government accepted the Law Commission’s recommendations to reform the communications offences, made in the 2021 Modernising Communications Offences report. The majority of the recommended offences, including offences of cyberflashing and encouraging or assisting serious self-harm, were implemented in the Online Safety Act 2023.
The Law Commission has published a report with draft legislation which would implement recommendations it made in July 2016 to modernise the rules on when consumers acquire ownership of goods under sales contracts.
The Law Commission published a report with draft legislation which would implement its recommendations to allow for the legal recognition of trade documents such as bills of lading and bills of exchange in electronic form. The recommendations were implemented in the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, which came into force in September 2023.
The Law Commission published a scoping paper on intermediated securities on 11 November 2020, identifying issues concerning investors and businesses for potential future review.
