Once we have submitted a final report, our project is completed. After this, our recommendations are discussed by Government before they are put before Parliament.
Our most recent completed projects are listed here but you can view all projects completed by the Law Commission between 1966 and 2024.
We published a scoping paper on decentralised autonomous organisations (“DAOs”) on 11 July 2024, which considers how DAOs can be characterised and identifies current issues around DAOs to inform any future law reform or innovations.
We published our final report, which includes our law reform recommendations to Government, on 28 June 2023. On 30 July 2024 we published a supplemental report and draft Bill on digital assets as personal property.
The Arbitration Bill, based closely on our recommendations, was introduced into Parliament on 21 November 2023. See the parliament website for further details.
The Law Commission of England and Wales has published its joint report with the Scottish Law Commission, outlining recommendations for a robust new system to govern surrogacy, which will work better for children, surrogates and intended parents. Our recommendations are accompanied by draft legislation. We have received the Government’s interim response to our recommendations.
We conducted a review of Part 2 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, also known as the post-conviction confiscation regime. We published our final report and recommendations on 9 November 2022.
The Law Commission of England and Wales has published its recommendations to reform weddings law, proposing a fairer system that gives couples more choice over where and how their wedding takes place.
The Government has accepted the Law Commission’s recommendations to reform the law in respect of intimate image offences, made in the 2022 Intimate Image Abuse report. A number of these recommendations have now been implemented in the Online Safety Act 2023.
The Law Commission has published an options paper for the Government on how it can improve the law to ensure that corporations are effectively held to account for committing serious crimes. The Government has introduced legislation informed by some of the options we set out.”
