Fifty years of the Law Commissions : the dynamics of law reform / edited by Matthew Dyson, James Lee, Shona Wilson Stark.
2016
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Title
Fifty years of the Law Commissions : the dynamics of law reform / edited by Matthew Dyson, James Lee, Shona Wilson Stark.
Published
Oxford, UK ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.
Call Number
KD654 .F54 2016
ISBN
9781849468572 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1849468575 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781849468589 (ePDF)
9781849468596 (ePub)
1849468575 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781849468589 (ePDF)
9781849468596 (ePub)
Description
xix, 421 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)935194905
Summary
This book brings together past and present law commissioners, judges, practitioners, academics and law reformers to analyze the past, present, and future of the Law Commissions in the United Kingdom and beyond. Its internationally recognized authors bring a wealth of experience and insight into how and why law reform does and should take place, covering statutory and non-statutory reform from national and international perspectives. The book contains papers from a conference to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Law Commissions Act 1965.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Fifty years of the Law Commissions. Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016 9781849468596 (DLC) 2016016212
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
v
Table of Law Reform Reports and Papers
xi
Contributors
xvii
pt. 1
Introduction
1.
Introduction / Shona Wilson Stark
3
2.
Fifty Years of the Law Commissions: The Dynamics of Law Reform Now, Then and Next / Lady Hale
17
pt. 2
First Half-Century of the Commissions
3.
Introduction / Lord Hodge
29
4.
Strategies of the Early Law Commission / Paul Mitchell
31
5.
Fifty Years of Law Reform---A Note on the Northern Ireland Style / Neil Faris
46
6.
Working on the Larger Canvas---Law Reform in a Federal System: Thoughts on Forty Years of the Australian Law Reform Commission / Kathryn Cronin
55
7.
Law Reform and Social Policy / Eric Clive
64
pt. 3
Institutions, Commissions, Committees, Codifiers
8.
Introduction / Lord Beith
75
9.
Memoir of a Reforming Chairman / Sir Terence Etherton
76
10.
Duty to Make the Law More Accessible? The Two C-Words / George L. Gretton
89
11.
Former Law Commission of Canada: The Road Less Travelled / Yves Le Bouthillier
97
12.
Law Commission and the Criminal Law: Reflections on the Codification Project / Ian Dennis
108
pt. 4
Many Faces of Law Reform
13.
Introduction / Lord Carnwath
125
14.
Democracy, Law Reform and the Rule of Law / Lord Toulson
127
15.
Promoting Law Reform: By Means of Draft Bills or Otherwise / Shona Wilson Stark
139
16.
Law Commissions, Courts and Society: A Sceptical View / William Binchy
151
17.
Good Name, a Long Game / Laura Dunlop
159
pt. 5
Implementation by Statute
18.
Introduction / Dame Mary Arden
173
19.
Legislative Implementation of Law Reform Proposals / Sir Grant Hammond
175
20.
Post-legislative Scrutiny, Legislative Drafting and the `Elusive Boundary' / Andrew Burrows
189
21.
Reflections on Statutory Implementation in the Law Commission / Nicholas Paines
198
22.
Implementation by Statute: What the Future Holds / Hector MacQueen
201
pt. 6
How Law Commissions Work
23.
Introduction / Sir James Munby
217
24.
Law Commission Method: Exportable to the EU? / Hugh Beale
219
25.
How Law Commissions Work: Some Lessons from the Past / David Johnston
235
26.
Challenges for Independent Law Reformers from Changing External Priorities and Shorter Timescales / Sir Jack Beatson
245
27.
Bill's Progress / Stephen Lewis
266
pt. 7
Courts and Commissions
28.
Introduction / Lord Drummond Young
273
29.
Etiquette of Law Reform / James Lee
274
30.
Law Reform in Private Law: The Role of Statutes in Supplementing or Supplanting the Common Law / Barbara McDonald
297
31.
Refiner's Fire / Charles Harpum
310
32.
Reflections on the Courts and the Commission / David Ormerod
326
pt. 8
Commissioning the Future
33.
Introduction / Elizabeth Cooke
339
34.
Scottish Law Commission and the Future of Law Reform in Scotland / Lord Pentland
340
35.
Looking to the Future / David Lloyd Jones
355
36.
Commissioning the Future---A Chief Executive's Perspective / Elaine Lorimer
365
37.
Implementation of Law Reform Reports: Developments in Scotland / Malcolm McMillan
369
38.
Future is a Foreign Country, They Do Things Differently There / Matthew Dyson
380
39.
Making Law---Who, How and What? / K.J. Keith
400
Index
413