Open Consultations
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Law Commission consultation on disabled children's social care law
This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales. We have been asked to review the legal framework governing social care for disabled children in England to ensure that the law is fair, modern and accessible, allowing children with disabilities to access the support they...
Closes 31 January 2025
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Business Tenancies Consultation Paper 1
This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales. Our wide-ranging review will consider in detail how the right to renew business tenancies, set out in Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, is working and will consider options for reform. This is the...
Closes 19 February 2025
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Costs protection in discrimination claims: Call for Evidence
In this Call for Evidence, we are seeking views and evidence on the current arrangements for bringing discrimination claims under the Equality Act 2010 in the civil courts in England and Wales and, specifically, whether costs protection should be extended to discrimination claims, to inform our...
Closes 19 February 2025
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Business Tenancies Survey
We are asking for responses to this survey about your experience of the 1954 Act. As well as responding to this survey, please also respond to our first consultation paper . The survey questions are set out in the following pages. All questions in this survey are optional. If you...
Closes 19 February 2025
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Law Commission consultation on compulsory purchase
This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales. Compulsory purchase is a legal mechanism by which certain bodies can acquire land for the public good without the consent of the owner. Landowners also have a right to compensation. The ability to purchase land using...
Closes 31 March 2025
Closed Consultations
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Law Commission consultation on burial and cremation
This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales. We are consulting on provisional proposals for reform to burial and cremation law. That includes provisional proposals relating to grave reuse and reclamation, regulation of burial grounds, and aspects of...
Closed 9 January 2025
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Independent Sentencing Review 2024 to 2025: Call for Evidence
The Independent Sentencing Review is seeking evidence to help the development of recommendations to ensure we are never again in a position where the country has more prisoners than prison places, and the government is forced to rely on the emergency release of prisoners. The Panel is...
Closed 9 January 2025
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Law Commission consultation on co-operative and community benefit societies
This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales. We have been asked to review the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 to ensure that it is fitting to the needs of societies, and that regulation is proportionate and effective. For more...
Closed 10 December 2024
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Access to Justice in relation to the Aarhus Convention: call for evidence
The UK is one of 47 Parties to the Aarhus Convention, an international treaty under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The Convention sets out obligations on Parties to make provisions for the public to access environmental information, to participate in...
Closed 9 December 2024
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Ancillary Orders Consultation
Introduction What is this consultation about? The Sentencing Council currently provides guidance on ancillary orders in various places on our website as well as within offence specific guidelines (usually at step 6 or 7). Most of this guidance is aimed at magistrates’ courts. ...
Closed 4 December 2024