Research assistants

…course or courses involving two years’ full-time substantive legal studies or the equivalent in part-time studies. You must have first class or good 2.1 standard undergraduate degree. You must be…

Your ideas for law reform

…(a) urgent projects with tight or fixed timeframes and (b) longer-term projects where there is more flexibility over delivery. There has to be a realistic assessment of the time and…

Update on the 14th Programme of Law Reform

…consultation, covering nearly 200 possibilities for law reform. The Commission has today decided to extend the timetable for finalising the Programme. We have concluded that now is not the time…

Project: Cohabitation

Project status: Complete

…Lords in Miller v Miller; McFarlane v MacFarlane (with thanks to Family Law for permission to reproduce the article). Research examining outcomes for cohabiting couples under the current law, published…

Project: Wills

Project status: Analysis of responses

time of bereavement. And yet it’s thought that 40% of the adult population don’t have a will. And even when someone has made a will the complexities in the law…