Scottish Law Commission launches new work programme
The Scottish Law Commission has today published its Eleventh Programme of Law Reform, the basis for most of its work for the five year period from 2023 to 2027.
Prepared following public consultation and approved by Scottish ministers, the programme incorporates ongoing work from the previous programme along with four new areas of work, on executry law, the law of limitation, the rules on execution of documents, and the consolidation of nature conservation legislation.
Continuing projects include heritable securities, aspects of leases, homicide, aspects of family law and damages for personal injury, along with a reference received from ministers on tenement law and the establishment of compulsory owners’ associations, on which work has now begun.
Introducing the programme, Lady Paton, the Commission’s chair, said: "It contains projects on a broad range of areas of civil and criminal law which touch the lives of many people in Scotland."
She added: "I believe that the Programme is well-balanced and will be beneficial both to individuals and businesses and to Scottish society in general."