Project status: Pre-project
Sefydlwyd Comisiwn y Gyfraith gan Ddeddf Comisiynau’r Gyfraith 1965, i bwrpas hyrwyddo diwygio’r gyfraith. Mae’r Ddeddf yn ei gwneud yn ofynnol i Gomisiwn y Gyfraith dderbyn ac ystyried cynigion ar gyfer diwygio’r gyfraith. Mae’n rhaid i Gomisiwn y Gyfraith hefyd baratoi a chyflwyno Rhaglenni cyfnodol i’r Arglwydd Ganghellor, sy’n archwilio gwahanol ganghennau o’r gyfraith gyda … Read more >
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 has set out the areas it intends to work on for the next few years. In July 2016 the 13th Programme of Law Reform consultation … Read more >
Project status: Pre-project
The problem The law governing how we dispose of the bodies of our loved ones when they die is unfit for modern needs. While we often think of the choice as being between burial and cremation, new methods of disposal are being developed which are completely unregulated here. Further, the legislation governing more traditional methods … Read more >
Project status: Complete
Project status: Complete
Project status: Complete
Project status: Complete
The purpose of this project was to review the law in relation to redress from public bodies for substandard administrative action. Our key objective in the project was to achieve the correct balance between fairness to aggrieved citizens and appropriate protections to public bodies and the public funds they use. The project On 26 May 2010, … Read more >
Project status: Pre-project
The problem Administrative review allows an individual to challenge a decision about them made by a public body. It is carried out by the public body, at their discretion. In some cases, requesting a review is a prerequisite to appealing to a tribunal. Administrative review decisions determine the outcome of at least as many cases … Read more >
Project status: Complete
The adult social care project was concerned with reviewing the law relating to the provision of adult social care in England and Wales. The legislative framework for adult residential care, community care, adult protection and support for carers is inadequate, often incomprehensible and outdated. To this day, it remains a confusing patchwork of conflicting statutes … Read more >
Project status: Complete
We published our final report on this project on 16 November 1997. In the report we make recommendations for the reform of exemplary damages, which aim to punish the wrongdoer. We consider that aggravated damages should be viewed as purely compensatory and recommend that, if exemplary (or ‘punitive’) damages are retained, their availability must be … Read more >