This project involved an examination of the existing mechanisms for compensating victims of crime for harm, loss or damage suffered as the result of that crime. The project considered the adequacy of these mechanisms and made proposals for any...
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Each project is an area of law or subject matter that the Law Commission has agreed to review. The Commission works on several projects at a time. Together, these projects make up the Commission's annual work programme.
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Project status: Closed
Start date 02 May 2008
Last updated 11 May 2015
Project status: Closed
Start date 14 January 1999
Last updated 11 May 2015
As an adjunct to its Electronic Commerce project, the Law Commission decided to consider how our laws should deal with computer misuse. Due to urgency in the matter, the report for this project report is confined to concepts and which does not...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 August 1997
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project is part of the continuing reference to the Commission to review the law, structure and practices governing procedure in criminal cases. This project examines and reviews the Costs In Criminal Cases Act 1967. The main point to be...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 July 1996
Last updated 11 May 2015
The purpose of this project is to give fuller effect to the principle that the State is under the law and to ensure that as far as practicable legal procedures relating to and remedies against the Crown (as representing the State) are the same as...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 January 1991
Last updated 11 May 2015
The purpose of this project is to make the law of evidence as clear, simple and accessible as practicable, and to facilitate the fair, just and speedy judicial resolution of disputes. In April 1991 the Law Commission published the first of a...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 January 1989
Last updated 11 May 2015
The purpose of this project is to make the law of evidence as clear, simple and accessible as practicable, and to facilitate the fair, just and speedy judicial resolution of disputes. In April 1991 the Law Commission published the first of a...
Project status: Closed
Start date 28 May 1986
Last updated 11 May 2015
This project examines and reviews: the language and structures of legislation; arrangements for the systematic monitoring and review of legislation; the law relating to the interpretation of legislation; and the provisions of the Acts...
Project status: Closed
Start date 04 May 1999
Last updated 11 May 2015
In 1989 the Law Commission was asked by the Minister of Justice to review procedure in criminal cases. The project is a continuing one. This particular part of the project considers issues surrounding juries in criminal trials. In 1995 we...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 January 1991
Last updated 11 May 2015
The purpose of this project is to make the law of evidence as clear, simple and accessible as practicable, and to facilitate the fair, just and speedy judicial resolution of disputes. In April 1991 the Law Commission published the first of a...
Project status: Closed
Start date 01 January 1991
Last updated 11 May 2015
The purpose of this project is to make the law of evidence as clear, simple and accessible as practicable, and to facilitate the fair, just and speedy judicial resolution of disputes. In April 1991 the Law Commission published the first of a...