Fifty Years of the Law Commissions : The Dynamics of Law Reform.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Table of Law Reform Reports and Papers -- Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fifty Years of the Law Commissions: The Dynamics of Law Reform Now, Then and Next -- Part 2 The First Half-Century of the Commissions -- 3 Introduction -- 4 Strategies of the Early Law Commission -- 5 Fifty Years of Law Reform-A Note on the Northern Ireland Style -- 6 Working on the Larger Canvas-Law Reform in a Federal System: Thoughts on Forty Years of the Australian Law Reform Commission -- 7 Law Reform and Social Policy -- Part 3 Institutions, Commissions, Committees, Codifiers -- 8 Introduction -- 9 Memoir of a Reforming Chairman -- 10 The Duty to Make the Law More Accessible? The Two C-Words -- 11 The Former Law Commission of Canada: The Road Less Travelled -- 12 The Law Commission and the Criminal Law: Reflections on the Codification Project -- Part 4 The Many Faces of Law Reform -- 13 Introduction -- 14 Democracy, Law Reform and the Rule of Law -- 15 Promoting Law Reform: By Means of Draft Bills or Otherwise -- 16 Law Commissions, Courts and Society: A Sceptical View -- 17 A Good Name, a Long Game -- Part 5 Implementation by Statute -- 18 Introduction -- 19 The Legislative Implementation of Law Reform Proposals -- 20 Post-legislative Scrutiny, Legislative Drafting and the 'Elusive Boundary' -- 21 Reflections on Statutory Implementation in the Law Commission -- 22 Implementation by Statute: What the Future Holds -- Part 6 How Law Commissions Work -- 23 Introduction -- 24 The Law Commission Method: Exportable to the EU? -- 25 How Law Commissions Work: Some Lessons from the Past -- 26 Challenges for Independent Law Reformers from Changing External Priorities and Shorter Timescales -- 27 The Bill's Progress -- Part 7 Courts and Commissions -- 28 Introduction.

29 The Etiquette of Law Reform -- 30 Law Reform in Private Law: The Role of Statutes in Supplementing or Supplanting the Common Law -- 31 The Refiner's Fire -- 32 Reflections on the Courts and the Commission -- Part 8 Commissioning the Future -- 33 Introduction -- 34 The Scottish Law Commission and the Future of Law Reform in Scotland -- 35 Looking to the Future -- 36 Commissioning the Future-A Chief Executive's Perspective -- 37 Implementation of Law Reform Reports: Developments in Scotland -- 38 The Future is a Foreign Country, They Do Things Differently There -- 39 Making Law-Who, How and What? -- Index.

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