law commission

• full time parlimentary body with 5 members and research staff
• the develop and reform the law with codification, consolidation and repealign
• set up by law commissions act 1965
• codification - bringing all the law on one topic together
• consolidation - combining the law from lots of acts into one
• repealing - getting rid of old absolute law
• reformed - law commission act 2009 - have to be have more reports passed
• create reports which parliment can choose to implement or not
• pro - researched by legal experts
• pro - non political - independant from specific parties
• pro - whole areas of law considered and reformed
• con - might not implement reforms and are often slow
• con - lack of parlimentary time