Project: Mental Incapacity

Project status: Complete

…of an adult patient without capacity to take that decision. The programme item we published in September 1989 referred to suggestions that “existing legal mechanisms are complicated, inflexible and piecemeal”…

Simplifying sentencing procedure

…Law Commission’s 12th programme of law reform. We sought consultees’ views as to whether the document was comprehensive, whether there were any errors and whether it was over-inclusive. The drafting…

Project: Firearms

Project status: Complete

Download the report Download the summary The problem When we consulted on the content of the Law Commission’s 12th Programme of Law Reform, a number of respondents suggested that the…

Project: Unfitness to Plead

Project status: Complete

…In our Tenth Programme of Law Reform in 2008 we stated an intention to examine the law relating to unfitness to plead. The unfitness to plead project looks at how…

Project: Intermediated securities

Project status: Complete

…of securities or an intermediary. The project This project forms part of the Law Commission’s Thirteenth Programme of Law Reform. We were asked by the Department for Business, Energy &…

Reporting on our 50th anniversary year

…for our next three-yearly programme, I have confidence in the future and a firm belief that the need for law reform will be as important over the next 50 years.”…

The service we offer

Law reform projects The Commission follows a programme of law reform that is periodically refreshed through consultation. At each consultation, we ask for ideas for projects from government, the judiciary,…

Annual report 2018-19 published

…twelve months, such as: A Commissioner outreach programme to encourage a greater diversity of applicants for Commissioner roles. Four reports with recommendations for reform laid in Parliament, including land registration…