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Download a summary of the report here. Download the full report here. Read the interim response from the MoJ here. View the press release here. Our project The origins of…
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…report and the report itself explain our recommendations and the reasoning behind them. Next steps The Government accepted the Law Commission’s recommendations to reform the communications offences, made in the…
Project status: Consultation
…(“UKRI”) through the Future Flight Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK and the Economic and Social Research Council. It will examine the existing legal framework to identify the challenges and opportunities…
Project status: Complete
…113A(6D) of the Police Act 1997 (the “list of non-filterable offences”) and include serious offences of violence, sexual offences and offences against children and vulnerable adults. What we did We…
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Download the summary of the options paper here. Download the full options paper here. Download the impact assessment here. View the press release here. The problem The general rule…
…the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, and one reviewing the Friendly Societies Act 1992, to ensure that these pieces of legislation support a modern business environment where co-operatives…
…which areas of insurance contract law were in need of reform. In the light of the responses received, the teams published a second paper setting out their decisions on the…
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…should be required to ask questions about what they want to know. The Marine Insurance Act 1906 (“the 1906 Act”) is based on eighteenth and nineteenth century principles. The law…
…to the stirring up hatred offences, the Commission has recommended: Replacing the dwelling exemption with protection for private conversations to ensure they are exempted regardless of where they take place…
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…The Bill was introduced into Parliament on 10 October 2012 (details below). The Notes on the Bill and the text of the report are available at the links at the…