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Project status: Calling for submissionsStart date18 December 2019Last updated15 April 2021
The Law Commission will review the law of succession. The law of succession is the system of rules that governs who gets a person’s property when they die.
In July 2019 the Minister Responsible for the Law Commission requested that the...