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Zusatztext Read as a whole, the essayists give thoughtful accounts about the way the Commissions have gone about their work and how they have taken account of the constitutional arrangements that govern them. Informationen zum Autor Matthew Dyson is Professor of Civil and Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK. James Lee is Senior Lecturer in Private Law in The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, UK. Shona Wilson Stark is a University Lecturer in Public Law at the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and an Official Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge. Klappentext This book brings together past and present law commissioners, judges, practitioners, academics and law reformers to analyse the past, present and future of the Law Commissions in the United Kingdom and beyond. Its internationally recognised 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 chapters of the book developed from papers given at a conference to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Law Commissions Act 1965. Zusammenfassung This book brings together past and present law commissioners! judges! practitioners! academics and law reformers to analyse the past! present and future of the Law Commissions in the United Kingdom and beyond. Its internationally recognised 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 chapters of the book developed from papers given at a conference to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Law Commissions Act 1965. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Matthew Dyson, James Lee and Shona Wilson Stark 2. Fifty Years of the Law Commissions: The Dynamics of Law Reform Now, Then and Next Lady Hale Part 2: The First Half-Century of the Commissions 3. Introduction Lord Hodge 4. Strategies of the Early Law Commission Paul Mitchell 5. Fifty Years of Law Reform—A Note on the Northern Ireland S tyle Neil Faris 6. Working on the Larger Canvas—Law Reform in a Federal System: Thoughts on Forty Years of the Australian Law Reform Commission Kathryn Cronin 7. Law Reform and Social Policy Eric Clive Part 3: Institutions, Commissions, Committees, Codifiers 8. Introduction Lord Beith 9. Memoir of a Reforming Chairman Sir Terence Etherton 10. The Duty to Make the Law More Accessible?The Two C-Words George L Gretton 11. The Former Law Commission of Canada: The Road Less Travelled Yves Le Bouthillier 12. The Law Commission and the Criminal Law: Reflections on the Codification Project Ian Dennis Part 4: The Many Faces of Law Reform 13. Introduction Lord Carnwath 14. Democracy, Law Reform and the Rule of Law Lord Toulson 15. Promoting Law Reform: By Means of Draft Bills or Otherwise Shona Wilson Stark 16. Law Commissions, Courts and Society: A Sceptical View William Binchy 17. A Good Name, a Long Game Laura Dunlop Part 5: Implementation by Statute 18. Introduction Dame Mary Arden 19. The Legislative Implementation of Law Reform Proposals Sir Grant Hammond 20. Post-legislative Scrutiny, Legislative Drafting and the ‘Elusive Boundary’ Andrew Burrows 21. Reflections on Statutory Implementation in the Law Commission Nicholas Paines 22. Implementation by Statute: What the Future Holds H...
