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.
We are recommending that a new Planning Code is created for Wales, which is comprehensive but simpler. We have analysed the responses to our Consultation Paper, and produced a Final Report, submitted to the Welsh Government and laid in the UK Parliament and in the National Assembly on 03 December 2018. The Welsh government provided a full response in November 2020.
We published our final report and recommendations on 29 June 2016. The Counsel General sent the Welsh Government’s final response on 19 July 2017. We are very pleased that the Welsh Government agrees or agrees in principle with the vast majority of our recommendations (the full response is available below). Crucially the Welsh Government “agrees that a sustained, long term programme of consolidation and codification of Welsh law would deliver societal and economic benefits, and is necessary to ensure that the laws of Wales are easily accessible.” A pilot project looking “consolidation, codification and better publication” will run until early 2018.
Making provision in law for binding nuptial agreements and helping people understand the law on meeting an ex-spouse’s financial needs on the breakdown of a marriage. Guidance has been produced, and scoping work undertaken by the government but we await a final response.
We published a discussion paper on 23 July 2013 with our provisional proposals for reform of the defences of insanity and automatism, based on lack of capacity.
