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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.
This is the Law Commission's report on the Enforcement of Family Financial Orders.
This is the Law Commission's final report on kidnapping and related offences.
Reforms to hate crime laws to make them fairer, and to protect women for the first time.
The Law Commission has recommended reforms to the outdated and unclear offence of misconduct in public office offence.
This document contains the following information: Criminal law: rape within marriage.
This report concludes the Law Commission's Simplification of Criminal Law: Public Nuisance and Outraging Public Decency project.
This document contains the following information: Cohabitation: the financial consequences of relationship breakdown
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, …
The Law Commission commenced a project in 2009 to examine the status and enforceability of marital property agreements.
This project forms part of the Law Commission's 11th Programme of Law Reform.
The Law Commission has published recommendations to address the harms arising from online abuse.
This document contains the following information: Law Commission: The Electronic Communications Code.
This document contains the following information: The interpretation of statutes.
Making commonhold a preferred alternative to leasehold ownership. We published our report on commonhold (“Reinvigorating commonhold: the alternative to leasehold ownership”) on 21 July 2020.
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 legislating the criminal code offences against the person and general principles.
This document contains the following information: Adult Social Care.
The project reviewed the legal framework relating to taxis and private hire vehicles across England and Wales with a view to making it simpler and more modern.
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