Bushra Khanom P4/ M2
Influences on parliament
Law commission
The law commission was set up in 1965 by the law commissions Act 1965, itis a statutory
independent body that review the law and recommend any improvements which needs to
get done on the law. The law commission’s main aim is to make sure that any laws are fair,
modern and profitable. Also to carryout research and discussion so that they are able to
make efficient recommendation for the parliament to take into consideration and finally to
make sure that they decrease the number of separate statutes, repeal obsolete and
pointless enactments and to organise the law. There are 5 commissioners, they are all
appointed to this role on full time but cam do other work such judicial training or service.
One of the commissioners is a chairman who is a high court of an appeal courts judge and is
appointed to this role for up to 3 years. The other four commissioners are either, solicitors,
barristers, judges or people who teach law, but they would all have to be experienced in
their field, they can have their role for up to 5 years but can be extended. But the
commissioners are supported by 20 members of the government legal service, the chief
executive, two parliamentary counsel who draft the bills so that they can improve in the law
and lastly a number of research assistants who have a degree in law.
The law commissions Act 1965 would need the commissioners to submit programmes for
examination from different parts of the law so that the Lord Chancellor so that he could
approve upon it before they undertake any new work. Before the commission decide what
law they want to take forward, they would get ideas from judges, the public, government
departments and voluntary and business sectors for their point of view of the law. The
projects they chose to undertake, they would have to firstly check the importance of the
law, so that they would have to check the benefits of reforming the law, also the suitability,
so they would have to check whether or not the commission is the most appropriate body
to review the law and finally if all the resources are available so that the commissions would
have to have experience in the field. When the law commissions has agreed to review a law
they have to go through a process where they will firstly initiate by deciding the
responsibilities of the law so that see if it is combined with the government department.
Then pre consultation, so in this part they would study the law to check for its faults and
would look at other areas of law with similar problems so that it is easier to review it. Then a
consultation paper is given out so that they are able to come up with solutions for the law
by getting all the positive and the negative aspects on the law, they would get feedback
from different organisations, such as the public and the media. They would then analyse the
response and comments made to the consultation which is the policy department, so that
they can develop on their thinking about the law. And finally the report stage where they
would send a report to the Lord Chancellor and the secretary of state so that they can tell
them their final decision and the reason behind the law. Consolidation of statutes is one of
the functions under the law commissions act 1965, their main aim is to be able to make a
law clearer and accessible for public, but a good consolidation is more beneficial for those
Influences on parliament
Law commission
The law commission was set up in 1965 by the law commissions Act 1965, itis a statutory
independent body that review the law and recommend any improvements which needs to
get done on the law. The law commission’s main aim is to make sure that any laws are fair,
modern and profitable. Also to carryout research and discussion so that they are able to
make efficient recommendation for the parliament to take into consideration and finally to
make sure that they decrease the number of separate statutes, repeal obsolete and
pointless enactments and to organise the law. There are 5 commissioners, they are all
appointed to this role on full time but cam do other work such judicial training or service.
One of the commissioners is a chairman who is a high court of an appeal courts judge and is
appointed to this role for up to 3 years. The other four commissioners are either, solicitors,
barristers, judges or people who teach law, but they would all have to be experienced in
their field, they can have their role for up to 5 years but can be extended. But the
commissioners are supported by 20 members of the government legal service, the chief
executive, two parliamentary counsel who draft the bills so that they can improve in the law
and lastly a number of research assistants who have a degree in law.
The law commissions Act 1965 would need the commissioners to submit programmes for
examination from different parts of the law so that the Lord Chancellor so that he could
approve upon it before they undertake any new work. Before the commission decide what
law they want to take forward, they would get ideas from judges, the public, government
departments and voluntary and business sectors for their point of view of the law. The
projects they chose to undertake, they would have to firstly check the importance of the
law, so that they would have to check the benefits of reforming the law, also the suitability,
so they would have to check whether or not the commission is the most appropriate body
to review the law and finally if all the resources are available so that the commissions would
have to have experience in the field. When the law commissions has agreed to review a law
they have to go through a process where they will firstly initiate by deciding the
responsibilities of the law so that see if it is combined with the government department.
Then pre consultation, so in this part they would study the law to check for its faults and
would look at other areas of law with similar problems so that it is easier to review it. Then a
consultation paper is given out so that they are able to come up with solutions for the law
by getting all the positive and the negative aspects on the law, they would get feedback
from different organisations, such as the public and the media. They would then analyse the
response and comments made to the consultation which is the policy department, so that
they can develop on their thinking about the law. And finally the report stage where they
would send a report to the Lord Chancellor and the secretary of state so that they can tell
them their final decision and the reason behind the law. Consolidation of statutes is one of
the functions under the law commissions act 1965, their main aim is to be able to make a
law clearer and accessible for public, but a good consolidation is more beneficial for those
