Law reform

• Law Commission:

  Set up in 1965 by Law Commissions Act 1965. A full time body and consists of a chairman who is a high court judge.

  Concerned with;

  • development and reform
  • codification
  • repeal
• Reform:

  • considers areas which are in need of reform
• Codification- reviewing all the law on one topic and creating a complete code of law
• consolidation- combining the law from several acts of parliament into one act of parliament.
• repeal- the act ceases to be law. Only Parliament can repeal to an act of parliament.