Law Commission
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- Law Commission
- full time body that keep all English laws under review
- Repeal
- to remove out of date acts
- Consolidation
- to draw existing provisions together in one Act
- Codification
- bringing together all the law on one topic eg family law into one source
- Composition
- five full time Commissioners
- Chairnam is either High or Appeal Court judge
- experienced judges, barristers, solicitors or teachers of law
- appointed by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary od State
- supported by Government legal service, Parliamentary council and research assistants
- How they do it
- Refferal
- topics to referred by Lord Chancellor for the Government, or it may itself select areas for reform
- Research
- researches areas in need for reform and publishes consultation paper
- Consultaion
- paper will describe current law, set out problems and look at options for reform
- Proposals for refom
- presented in a report which shows research and there will often be a draft bill included
- Refferal
- experienced judges, barristers, solicitors or teachers of law
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