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| HOW CAN LAW BE REFORMED? | - Parliament (brings up new legislation) - Judges (judicial precedent) - Law reform agencies (Law commission) - Pressure groups (pressurise govt) - Europe (must be inkeeping with their law) - Royal commissions (specific areas of law - royal commission of police powers) |
| WHAT ARE THE WAYS IN WHICH PARLIAMENT REFORMS LAW? + EXAMPLES | - Repeal, to abolish an existing law (Easter Act) - Creation, to create a new law or adapt an existing one (OAP act) - Consolidation, combines statutes on a particular subject in one statute (Powers of criminal court sentencing act) - Codification, law developed over time to create a large body or common law and case law, one statute to contain everything (Sexual Offences Act) Consolidation & Codification carried out by the law commission |
| HOW DO JUDGES REFORM THE LAW? WHAT ISSUES ARE THERE? | The process of judical precedent - Democracy and accountability issues - Judges are not elected - Hard to be removed due to security of tenure |
| WHAT ARE THE THREE LAW REFORM AGENCIES? | Law Reform Committee (civil law) Criminal Law Revision Committee (criminal law) Law Commission (both civil and criminal) |
| WHEN WAS THE LAW COMMISSION CREATED? WHO WORKS THERE? FULL OR PART TIME? WHAT TYPE OF LAW DOES IT DEAL WITH? + EXAMPLES | - 1965 - Chairmen, high court judge + 4 other commissioners - Full time - Civil and criminal - CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT |
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