14 new areas of law set for reform โ Law Commission
…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 legal body has…
…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 legal body has…
…the Lord Chancellor (on behalf of the Government) and the Law Commission Following the commencement of the Law Commission Act 2009, in March 2010 the Government and the Law Commission…
…take many months to complete. This proposal for the creation of a new surrogacy process or “pathway” is one of several that the Law Commissions are now consulting on which…
Project status: Complete
…1964). In 1989 the Law Commission proposed examining both rules as part of its Fourth Programme of Law Reform. The project The Law Commission published a consultation paper in 1993,…
…understand and simpler to use.” The report, Statute Law Repeals: Twentieth Report, is available on the Law Commissions’ websites: lawcom.gov.uk, www.scotlawcom.gov.uk. Examples of repeals included in the Statute Law (Repeals)…
…after completing their undergraduate degree. Competition for the role is extremely high. We look for exceptional candidates and select them based on the following criteria: You must have completed a…
Project status: Complete
…Penney Lewis, Commissioner for criminal law, and Professor Sarah Green, Commissioner for commercial and common law. We published a discussion paper in May 2021 and held a series of roundtable…
…that may be preventing the effective delivery of justice. Responses can be submitted to the Commission until 31 October 2023. Commenting on the issues paper, Professor Penney Lewis, Criminal Law…
The Government has recently published its regular report on the implementation of Law Commission proposals from January 2018 to January 2023. The Law Commission has produced more than 350 sets…
…be convicted of a hate crime, it must be proved that they committed a crime and: (more commonly) they “demonstrated hostility” towards the victim on the basis of the protected…