¹¹The current members of the Legislation Advisory Committee are: Richard Clarke QC , Chairperson (also a Law Commissioner) Guy Beatson, Chief Econom ist, Ministry of Economic Developm ent Pro fessor J  F Burrow s, Canterbury University Cheryl Gwynn, Deputy Solicitor-General Jack Hodder, Partner, Chapman Tripp, Wellington Grant Liddell, Crown Counsel, Crown Law Office, Wellington Pro fessor Julie M axton, Auck land U niversity Janet McLea n, Senior Lecturer, A ucklan d U niversity Hon Justice Robertson, President, New Zealand Law Commission George Tanner QC, Chief Parliamentary Counsel. ¹²The   LA C   Guidelines   (incorporating   the   Supplement)   are   available   in   electronic   format   at http://www.justice.govt.nz/lac/index.html. 6 The first is the Legislation Advisory Committee (LAC) through publication of the Legislation Advisory Committee Guidelines: Guidelines on Process and Content of Legislation (LAC Guidelines) and the work of the LAC generally. A second is the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. There is a certain amount of overlap between them,  but  each  deserves  comment.  A  good  deal  of  what  is  said  will  already  be familiar to New Zealand listeners. It does no harm to restate it. I suspect that more is written about judicial process than about legislative process. Legislation Advisory Committee and LAC Guidelines 9 Before the establishment of the Law Commission in February 1986, much of the work of law reform in New Zealand was undertaken by committees appointed by the Minister of Justice. Each had responsibility for a broad subject area.  One of the committees, the Public and Administrative Law Reform Committee, became, after the establishment of the Law Commission, the Legislation Advisory Committee .¹¹ The Committee is appointed by the Minister of Justice. The LAC Guidelines were first published in 1987. They were revised in 1992 and again in 2001. A Supplement to the 2002 edition was published last year.¹² The LAC Guidelines are designed to assist   both   policy-makers   and   lawyers   in   policy   development,   design,   and implementation.