25 (d)     Standing  committees  should  be  established  in  the  areas  of:  public  and administrative  law,  conveyancing  and  trustees,  contracts  and  commercial law, the rest of common law; (e)     That   there   would   still   be   a   need   for   special   committees   and/or Commissions; (f) That all non-official members of these committees should be paid for their services to sufficiently enable them to devote reasonable time to their task; (g)     That   experts   should   be   commissioned   to   prepare   special   studies   in appropriate cases; (h)     That  there  was  more  room  for  the  New  Zealand  Law  Society  and  the universities to contribute to law reform; and (i) Any machinery developed should continue to be as informal and inflexible as possible, and not fixed in statutory form. Other Law Reform Mechanisms 1937-1966 98.    As well as the LR Committee the Department of Justice also prepared proposals for  reform,  either  pursuant  to  Government  instructions  or  of  its  own  initiative. Sometimes this was as a result of the LR Committee not having the capacity, or the appropriate resources, to deal with the proposals. Matters dealt with by the Department  of  Justice  included  issues  of  Government  policy  or  public  law, matters that were primarily social rather than legal, and proposals whose size or scope prevented the LR Committee from giving them adequate attention.¹⁷ The Department also contributed to law reform by producing research and reports on request from the LR Committee. 99.    The  Department  of  Justice  had  various  ways  of  dealing  with  law  reform proposals. In some cases a special committee was appointed, presided over by a judicial  officer  or  lawyer,  to  receive  submissions  and  present  a  report  to  the Government.  In  some  cases  there  was  a  formal  committee  representing  the Government  departments  involved.  Often  the  work  was  done  by  an  informal                                                                                                                                              16    B J Cameron, above n4, 126. 17    J R Hanan, above n4, 9.