Project: Liability for Psychiatric Illness

Project status: Complete

…received compensation but nearly all of the relatives and survivors failed in their claims. The injustice of this position has been acknowledged by judges, newspapers, MPs and legal commentators. The…

Programmes of Law Reform

Under the Law Commissions Act 1965 the Law Commission is required to submit to the Lord Chancellor “programmes for the examination of different branches of the law with a view…

Project: 13th Programme of Law Reform

Project status: Complete

Under the Law Commissions Act 1965 the Law Commission is required to submit Programmes of law reform to the Lord Chancellor. Since then, every three or four years the Commission…