Law Reform Programme: 12th programme

The Law Commission has published its recommendations to reform the law of wills in its Report: Modernising Wills Law.

We are recommending that a new Planning Code is created for Wales, which is comprehensive but simpler. We 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 3 December 2018. The Welsh government provided a full response in November 2020.

Building a more effective land registration system. We made recommendations for reform in a report and draft Bill. Government responded to our report on 25 March 2021.

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).