Status: Completed

The Law Commission has published the final report of its review of burial and cremation law.

The Law Commission has completed its review of disabled children’s social care law and published its final report.

The Law Commission has published its final report on new funerary methods.

The Law Commission has published the final report of its review into aviation autonomy.

We published a scoping paper on decentralised autonomous organisations (“DAOs”) on 11 July 2024, which considers how DAOs can be characterised and identifies current issues around DAOs to inform any future law reform or innovations.   

We published our final report, which includes our law reform recommendations to Government, on 28 June 2023. On 30 July 2024 we published a supplemental report and draft Bill on digital assets as personal property.

The Law Commission has published its recommendations to reform the law of wills in its Report: Modernising Wills Law.

The Arbitration Bill, based closely on our recommendations, was introduced into Parliament on 21 November 2023. See the parliament website for further details.

The Government has asked the Law Commission to examine the trial process and to consider the law, guidance and practice relating to the use of evidence in prosecutions of sexual offences.