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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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Contract Statutes

Project status: Closed Start date 01 May 1990 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project reviews six contract statutes with the assistance of leading experts. The preparation and wider dissemination of these valuable accounts of the jurisprudence which has developed around the statutes is the major purpose of the review...

Aspects of Damages 1

Project status: Closed Start date 01 December 1990 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project arises from ongoing work on damages and the introduction into Parliament of the Employment Contracts Bill.

Aspects of Damages 2

Project status: Closed Start date 01 December 1990 Last updated 11 May 2015

This project considers the rules in Bain v Fothergill and Joyner v Weeks. The Commission concludes that the rules established in the two cases were unjustified and contrary to principle. It proposes that they be abolished by...

Aspects of Damages 3: Awards of Interest

Project status: Closed Start date 01 December 1990 Last updated 11 May 2015

The Report for this project is the third arising from the Law Commission’s review of aspects of damages. In 1991, the Commission reported on Employment Contracts and the Rule in Addis v Gramophone Co (R18, 1991), and on The Rules in ...

Evidence Law: Character and Credibility

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...

Evidence Law: Documentary Evidence and Judicial Notice

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...

Evidence Law: Expert Evidence and Opinion Evidence

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...

Evidence Law: Privilege

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...

Evidence Law: Reliability of Witness Testimony

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...

Evidence Law: The Evidence of Children and other Vulnerable Witnesses

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...

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