Law Commission consultation on homicide offences

Closes 30 Sep 2026

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Chapter 15: Equality impact

The Law Commission is tasked with ensuring the law is fair. To achieve this, we must take account of the characteristics of the people the law affects, and whether anything in the current law, or our proposals would have a disproportionate impact on any particular group.

Consultation Question 22

We invite consultees to tell us if they believe or have evidence or data to suggest that the homicide offences, or our proposed reforms, could result in advantages or disadvantages to certain groups or based on certain characteristics, with particular attention to the protected characteristics in section 4 of the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation), and also other characteristics such as socio-economic position and immigration status.