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A "right to light" is an easement that gives a landowner the right to receive light through defined apertures in buildings on his or her land.
The Law Commission has published recommendations to improve the law governing search warrants.
The home of Law Commission on GOV.UK. The Law Commission is a statutory independent body that keeps the law under review and recommends reform where it is needed. The aim of the Commission is to ensure that the law is fair, …
This is the Law Commission's final report on kidnapping and related offences.
This is the Law Commission's report on the Enforcement of Family Financial Orders.
This document contains the following information: Adult Social Care.
Reforms to hate crime laws to make them fairer, and to protect women for the first time.
Recommendations to transform home ownership for millions of people in England and Wales by improving the process by which leaseholders can buy the freehold or extend their lease (“enfranchisement”).
This document contains the following information: Criminal law: rape within marriage.
The Law Commission commenced a project in 2009 to examine the status and enforceability of marital property agreements.
This report concludes the Law Commission's Simplification of Criminal Law: Public Nuisance and Outraging Public Decency project.
This document contains the following information: Landlord and tenant law: compensation for tenants' improvements.
This document contains the following information: Making land work: easements, covenants and profits á prendre.
Electronic signatures are valid, confirms Law Commission
This project forms part of the Law Commission's 11th Programme of Law Reform.
This document contains the following information: The interpretation of statutes.
A review of the Official Secrets Acts to make sure Britain is safe in the 21st century.
Building a more effective land registration system.
This document contains the following information: Landlord and tenant: business tenancies a periodic review of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 part II
The Law Commission has recommended reforms to the outdated and unclear offence of misconduct in public office offence.
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