2 to   an   accessible   code³.      From   that   emerged   the   Reports   of   the   Common   Law Commissioners,    the    Real    Property Commissioners    and    the    Ecclesiastical    Law Commissioners⁴, but the underlying problems remained. Various  further  claims  were  made  for  continuing  reform  agencies,  but  it  was  the crusading   zeal   of   Gerald   Gardiner   QC   who,   with   A   Martin   in   1963,   wrote   the challenging   book   Law   Reform   Now⁵   which   really   made   a   difference.      The   great advantage  for  law  reform  was  that  Gerald  Gardiner  soon  became  the  Rt  Hon  Lord Gardiner, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain⁶.  The first Bill he introduced into the House   of   Lords   was   for   the   Constitution   of   the   permanent   Law   Commission   for England and a smaller Law Commission for Scotland⁷. This was a case where the ‘old countries’ were not the leaders of the pack.  As can so often  be  the  case,  the  initiatives  had  previously  occurred  with  the  Indian  Commission (in  1955)⁸  and  Hong  Kong  (in  1956)⁹.    Within  a  very  short  time  agencies  arose  in various  parts  of  Asia,  Africa  and  the  Caribbean.    Their  formats  were  not  identical.   Some were truly independent bodies while others were more closely aligned to parts of the Governmental machinery.  All of them, however, were concerned with a thorough, systematic   reform   of   the   law,   responding   to   anomalies   and   seeking   better   legal arrangements.                                                  3   Sir  Leslie  Scarman  “Law  Reform    –  Lessons  from  English  Experience”  (1967)  3  Manitoba  Law Journal, 48 4   Australian  Law  Reform  Commission    Annual   Report  1975    (Australian   Government   Publishing    Services, Canberra, 1975) 5 5   Gerald Gardiner and Andrew Martin (eds) Law Reform Now (Victor Golancz, London, 1963) 6   Gerald Gardiner  was  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  Great  Britain,  1964-70 (from  International Who’s Who, 51^st ed, 1987-1988, (Europa Publications limited, London, 1987) 501) 7   Proposals  for  English  and  Scottish  Law  Commissions  (Cmnd  2753)  1965;  Law  Commissions  Act 1965, c.22   8   The  first  Law  Commission  of  Independent  India  was  established  in  1955  with  the  then  Attorney- General of India, Mr M. C. Setalvad, as its Chairman (Law Commission of India : The Fifteenth Law Commission 1997-2000 (1999) 2) 9   Australian  Law  Reform  Commission   20  Years  of  Law  Reform  :  Volume  1  :  The  History (ALRC, Sydney, 1996) 8