Open 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...
Closes 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...
Closes 9 January 2025
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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 20 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
Closed Consultations
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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
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Law Commission consultation on contempt of court
This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales. We are conducting a review of the law on contempt of court and considering the need for reform to improve its effectiveness, consistency, and coherence. Our objective is to produce a law of contempt...
Closed 29 November 2024
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Miscellaneous amendments to sentencing guidelines 2024
What is this consultation about? The Sentencing Council has built up a large body of sentencing guidelines and accompanying materials that are in use in courts throughout England and Wales. Over time guidelines require updating because users have pointed out issues (often using the...
Closed 27 November 2024