Offences against the Person and General Principles
Project status: Complete
This project formed part of our wider project on Legislating the Criminal Code.
Project status: Complete
This project formed part of our wider project on Legislating the Criminal Code.
Project status: Complete
Project status: Complete
Project superseded by Intoxication and Criminal Liability (2009)
Project status: Complete
Project status: Complete
Project status: Consultation
This consultation exercise examined the question as to whether there should be criminal liability for the deliberate misuse of the trade secrets of another.
Project status: Complete
This project was part of the sixth programme of law reform. In our final report we explain how the law regulates the repair and maintenance of leasehold property and make recommendations for the reform of certain aspects of the law that governs the obligations of parties to a lease to repair and maintain the property … Read more >
Project status: Complete
This was an advisory project. Private International Law: EEC Preliminary Draft Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual and Non-contractual Obligations (prepared jointly with the Scottish Law Commission) (1974). The EEC Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations is scheduled to the Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990, and entered into force in the UK … Read more >
Project status: Complete
On 31 January 2002, the Lord Chancellor’s Department asked the Law Commission to undertake a scoping study into perceived abuses of defamation procedure. In particular the Lord Chancellor’s Department was concerned to find out, first, whether “gagging” writs and letters cause a problem in practice, and secondly, whether claimants routinely target those secondary publishers of … Read more >
Project status: Complete
In March 1990 the Lord Chancellor made a reference to the Commission: to examine the law relating to payments made but not lawfully due and in particular the common law rule that payments made under a mistake of law are irrecoverable, and to make recommendations. In 1991 we published a consultation paper, in which we … Read more >