Contact
Phone: 020 3334 0200
Email: Enquiries@lawcommission.gov.uk
Fax: 020 3334 0201
Address: 1st Floor, Tower, 52 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AG
Map to the Law Commission (entrance by 102 Petty France)
Media enquiries
For media queries, please email press.office@lawcommission.gov.uk or call:
- Michael Duncan (Head of Communications) – 07743 178681
For out of hours media queries, please contact Michael Duncan on the number above.
Law teams
Commercial and Common Law
Criminal Law
Property, Family and Trust Law
Public Law
Website
For all website queries, please email press.office@lawcommission.gov.uk.
Individual cases / legal advice
The Law Commission is a statutory body whose function is to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to make recommendations for its reform.
We are unable to give legal advice or other assistance on personal issues, including student assignments, or more general advice on individual cases arising in the courts or other points of law. We are also unable to give advice to understand how any of our work might apply to your own situation.
You can seek legal advice or assistance from other sources. For example, you may wish to contact Citizens Advice or a solicitor.
Details of how to contact Citizens Advice is available on their website, or you can call them on 0800 144 8848.
The Law Society’s website has further information on how to find a solicitor.
You may wish to investigate whether Legal Aid may be available. Further information is available on the Legal Aid webpage.
Ideas for law reform
We recognise that you may have concerns about how the law operates, either generally or in your particular circumstances.
We explain on our how we work page how the Law Commission takes on its law reform projects. In short, before taking on any project, the Law Commission applies rigorous processes and thought to ensure the project is appropriate and makes the best use of our resources and expertise. Our projects are either included in a Programme of Law Reform, or referred to us by Government Departments or the Welsh Government. Further information is available on our Programmes of Law Reform webpage.
While there is no fixed timing for our consultations on our Programmes of Law Reform, when they do occur we welcome ideas to reform the law from anybody and everybody. Our consultations are published on our website along with instructions on how to respond.
Unfortunately, outside of our consultations on our Programmes of Law Reform, we are unable to respond to individual suggestions for law reform. The time to contact us with your ideas for law reform is when we consult on our next Programme. Our consultations are published on our website along with details on how to respond. In the meantime, you may want to consider writing to your local MP and to the Government department responsible for the area about which you are concerned to make the case for law reform.
Freedom of Information
We make a significant amount of information available under our Freedom of Information publication scheme. The information you are looking for may already be available under the scheme, and you will not need to make a formal request under the Freedom of Information Act.
If you wish to make a formal Freedom of Information request, please make your request either by email or by post to the address above. Please mark your correspondence “Freedom of Information”.
We have tried to locate all of our older publications and make them available for reading and/or downloading. If you are looking for a publication that you cannot find on this website, please email the details to us at press.office@lawcommission.gov.uk and we can send the PDF to you.
Complaints
Our policy is to respond to all enquiries promptly and courteously. We treat all complaints seriously and aim to reply to them within 20 working days. If we cannot do that, we will keep you informed of the progress we are making with your complaint. If we decide your complaint is justified we will apologise and explain how we intend to put the situation right.
About the Commission
If you have a complaint about a member of the Law Commission’s staff or about its administrative procedures you should write, giving details of the complaint and your name and address, to the Head of Corporate Services either by email or to the address above.
Consultations
If you have a complaint about the conduct of one of our consultations you should write, giving details of the complaint and your name and address, to the Consultation Co-ordinator, either by email or to the address above.
Complaints about legal practitioners
The Law Commission has no role in dealing with complaints about legal practitioners – for example, solicitors or barristers.
If you have a complaint about a legal practitioner, we suggest you contact the Legal Ombudsman for details of when and how to do that.
Complaints about judges
The Law Commission has no role in dealing with complaints about judges.
If you have a complaint about a judge, we suggest you consider the guidance available on the Government webpage.