Law Reform Committee

The Law Reform Committee was a committee in England and Wales appointed by the Lord Chancellor "to consider, having regard especially to judicial decisions, what changes are desirable in such legal doctrines as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time refer to Committee".

The Lord Chancellor's decision to create this committee was announced on 2 May 1952 by the Attorney General, Lionel Heald, at the dinner of the West Surrey Law Society. The Solicitors Journal said that the proposed step was "overdue". The Committee was appointed on 16 June 1952. In 2006, John Wheeler said that the Committee was "defunct".

Six members of the Committee were judges, two were Queen's Counsel, two were solicitors and the remaining three were professors of law.

Recommendations contained in the third report were implemented by the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957.

The recommendations contained in the twelfth report had not been implemented by 2006.

The recommendations made in the eighteenth report were given "partial and modified effect" by the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977.

Recommendations contained in the nineteenth report were implemented by sections 20 and 21 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982.

Recommendations contained in the twenty-first report were implemented by the Limitation Amendment Act 1980.

Recommendations contained in the twenty-second report were implemented by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982.

Recommendations contained in the twenty-fourth report were implemented by the Latent Damage Act 1986.

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