Remedies in Administrative Law
Project status: Complete
Projects
Renting Homes
Project status: Complete
Nearly a third of the population of Wales – just under 400,000 households – rent their homes. The law governing their relationship with their landlords is an irrationally complicated mess. This project seeks to replace it with a modernised, understandable, and just legal structure. The project The Welsh Government announced in 2012 that it would … Read more >
Restitution: Mistakes of Law and Ultra Vires Public Authority Receipts and Payments
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 >
Review of Child Law: Guardianship
Project status: Complete
Rights of Access to Neighbouring Land
Project status: Complete
Rights of Suit: Carriage of Goods by Sea
Project status: Complete
Rights to Goods in Bulk
Project status: Complete
Rights to light
Project status: Complete
A “right to light” is an easement that gives a landowner the right to receive light through defined apertures in buildings on his or her land. The owner of land that is burdened by the right cannot substantially interfere with it – for example by erecting a building in a way that blocks the light … Read more >
Sale and Supply of Goods
Project status: Complete
Sale of Goods forming part of a Bulk
Project status: Complete