… No organisation should, however, rest on its laurels. Complacency and basking in the reflected glow of your greatest hits – or in my case, given I became Chair just over a year ago, the greatest hits of the band before you became a member – is certainly not something that a reform commission should engage in. If the Commission is to continue to realise its purpose there is, I believe, a need for it to be guided by six principles or themes. There is also a need for one significant structural reform to its constitution. It is to those that I now turn. First, the structural reform. The Law Commissions Act created two Commissions, one for England and Wales and one for Scotland. Northern Ireland would not have an equivalent to the Law Commission until 1989, when its Law Reform Advisory Committee was established …
Sir Peter Fraser, The Future of Law Reform (Society of Legal Scholars, Hale Lecture 2024) (Swansea, 6 February 2025).
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